大龙凤麻雀馆第二代传人司徒久年少继承家业,雀馆见证湾仔区变迁,「碰」、「杠」声中满载人情味!一成不变的司徒久竟肯斥资收购濒临解散的港湾乐团,得力助手张铁原本强烈反对,当知悉其收购乐团是为了失散多年的女儿兼乐手沈家明,终愿意出任副团长,从中协助二人相认……德旺集团主席欧阳宗当年于麻雀大战中败给司徒久的父亲,承诺德旺不会踏足湾仔;这位麻雀枭雄多年后卷土重来,要使计对付司徒久,最终司徒久能否守住大龙凤?。东北奉天,年仅十五岁的李玉琴(李羚饰)被溥仪(侯天来饰)册封为福贵人,成了中国最后一个皇妃。由于出身卑微,入宫后她不免受到二格格(葛云萍饰)等皇室成员的轻视和怠慢,她只好强颜欢笑、忍气吞声。多年后,她逐渐认识到自己应得到什么样的地位。苏军出兵东北,大清基业崩溃,傅仪在逃跑途中被苏军俘获。生存无望的李玉琴告别了被打入冷宫的婉容(李小力饰),回到关内,栖身于天津溥修(孔祥玉饰)家中,平日里靠织手工度日。十年后,她到抚顺战犯管理所看望久别的溥仪,四目相对,往事不堪回首。十五岁进宫,二十九岁得到溥仪温存的玉琴竟为了离婚而来......。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。