武媚娘传奇改动前剧照

当特工人员杰里米·瑞恩斯（斯蒂芬·道尔夫 Stephen Dorff 饰）从昏睡中醒来，却发现自己置身于一个密闭、黑暗的空间里。他能听到马达的轰鸣以及来自周遭的震动，似乎自己正被关在一辆车的后背箱内。他怀疑因为欠下赌资而遭到报复，可是种种迹象表明这次绑架又跟赌博无关。后备箱内有LED计时器一次次倒计时，旁边还配备了无线电。通过无线电，他知道另一个自称白宫外事部官员的家伙也受到同样的待遇，绑架者的目的似乎想从杰里米口中套出一份重大的秘密。对方了然他的一切，连杰里米的女友也尽在掌控之中。 杰里米三缄其口，想尽一切办法从后备箱内逃出，绑架背后的真相正慢慢揭晓……。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。