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One day, thinking that it will make your wife and friends smile, you shave off the moustache that you have had for the last ten years. No one notices or, even worse, everyone pretends not to notice and your smile soon fades. Before being wiped off your face. You insist but people tell you that you've never had a moustache. Are you going mad? Are people trying to make you think you are? Or has something in the world's order gone awry at your expense? Adapting his own 1986 novel, Emmanuel Carrère – whose books Class Trip and The Adversary became Cannes Competition titles by Claude Miller and Nicole Garcia, respectively – provides a feast of sustained tension as the man's wife and his closest friends deny that he ever had a moustache. Viewers who like their conclusions tidy may rebel, but those who relish outstanding performances in the service of an intriguing idea will be entertained. The film won the Label Europa Cinemas Prize at Directors' Fortnight in Cannes. 一天，你滿心以為給妻子和朋友開個玩笑，把蓄了十年的鬍子刮掉。但可惜完全被人忽視了，或更可悲的是每個人都假裝看不到，很快，你得意的笑容不見了，笑臉再也掛不住。你堅持，但所有人都跟你說你從未蓄過鬍子。莫非你神經錯亂？是否所有人都想令你以為自己瘋掉了？又或者，是因為你的緣故而搞亂了世界的某種秩序？ 本片是導演艾曼雷．卡雷爾改編自他自己一九八六年出版的小說。他的另外兩本小說《 Class Trip 》及《 The Adversary 》曾分別被葛羅特．米勒及妮歌．加西亞兩位導演改編成電影並先後成為康城影展的參選影片。在本片中，因為男人的妻子和老友否認他曾經蓄鬍子而令整個故事維持在緊張的氣氛中。 喜歡結局完整的觀眾可能會感到不高興，但欣賞引人入勝的故事和精湛演技的觀眾則會看得津津有味。本片在康城影展的導演雙週中奪得歐洲電影標籤大獎。 Source: The 34th French Cinepanorama, Hong Kong。母亲的早逝、姐姐的出嫁令少女艾玛很快就成了哈菲尔德大宅的女主人，在成功撮合了她的家庭教师泰勒小姐与韦斯顿先生的美好姻缘后，艾玛更加意气风发。这次艾玛又将目标对准了她的好友——出身平凡的哈丽叶特小姐，她准备将哈丽叶特小姐介绍给当地的牧师——绅士埃尔顿先生。为此，艾玛不仅处处为哈丽叶特小姐和埃尔顿先生制造相处的机会，甚至怂恿毫无主见的哈丽叶特小姐拒绝了和她身份般配而且善良富足的农夫马丁先生的求爱。这一切，艾玛的好友——聪明的奈特利先生都看在眼里，虽然他极力反对艾玛的做法，并且认为艾玛这样做会害了哈丽叶特小姐，但信心满满的艾玛又怎会将他的意见放在眼里。 艾玛一方面继续着她的“红娘事业”，另一方面期待着从小寄养在舅母家的韦斯顿先生的绅士儿子——弗兰克的拜访。艾玛的“事业”最后能否成功，她又能否找到自己的意中人？。