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故事发生在1844年的美国康涅狄格州，出生于贫困之家的米兰达（吉恩·蒂尔尼 Gene Tierney 饰）收到了表哥尼古拉斯（文森特·普莱斯 Vincent Price 饰）的来信，尼古拉斯邀请米兰达去他家，担任他的女儿凯瑟琳（康妮·马歇尔 Connie Marshall 饰）的家庭教师一职。在米兰达的心目中，尼古拉斯一家就是上流社会生活的缩影，于是她愉快的接下了这份工作，动身启程了。 哪知道刚到宅邸没多久，米兰达就听到了有关这里的恐怖传说，不仅如此，不久之后，尼古拉斯的妻子乔安娜（薇薇安·奥斯本 Vivienne Osborne 饰）便离奇去世了。乔安娜去世当晚，尼古拉斯便向米兰达表露了爱意，吓得米兰达退避三舍。此时的她并不知道，自己早已经被卷入了一个可怕的诅咒之中。。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。