Le Moustache

"The Moustache" is a comedy that, starting from the most trivial of pretexts, quickly turns into a true Kafkian nightmare. A man shaves his mustache. No one seems to notice, and in a surrealistic parody of male mid-life crisis this causes conflict, pain and uncertainty. But more and more threads come undone in the fabric of his reality.

Excellent self-adaptation of a short novel by Emmanuel Carrère, La Moustache delivers the spectator with much more than it promises, in these days a rare occurrence indeed. Vincent Lindon as the troubled protagonist is good and measured, and the movie has an excellent pace and nothing is overdone. Even the theme, a Philip Glass "Concerto pour violon et orchestre" could not be more effective. Will we ever see this movie in the USA? Maybe in a parallel reality.

Next, on my list of movies-to-watch.

something tells me a friend's play called "philosophy majors in love" will be hitting off-broadway within the next year. i read parts & it's hilarious. guy philosophy major falls in love with girl philosophy major who is blind in 1 eye and often doesn't seem him when he's around -- aka, she often doesn't even know he exists.

those zany existentialist comedies!

Ah - I guess that I'll need to see this, no?