视频简介
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。故事发生在1899年的纽约，纽约街头处处可见叫卖报纸的报童，因为这些孩子们卖报属于自发行为，一直都没有一个可以管理和保护他们的组织，因此报童们常常受到财大气粗的报业老板们的压榨和剥削。杰克（克里斯蒂安·贝尔 Christian Bale 饰）是这些报童中的一员，相比去其他的孩子们，杰克显然要更为活泼，也更为机灵一些。 哈斯特（马克斯·卡塞拉 Max Casella 饰）和普利策（罗伯特·杜瓦尔 Robert Duvall 饰）是当时报业的两大巨头，相比之下，普利策的公司经营处于劣势，为了能够赚更多的钱，普利策决定提高报童购买报纸的价格，以获得更大的利润，这一举动引起了报童们的不满。趁着这个机会，一直想要做出一番大事业的杰克揭竿而起，带领着报童们开始了罢工运动。。
