La Moustache

A Parisian architect's sanity begins to unravel when an apparently harmless whim leads him to shave his mustache in writer-turned-director Emmanuel Carrere's adaptation of his own first novel. While soaking in his bath one evening before he and his wife, Agnes (Emmanuelle Devos), dine with friends, Marc (Vincent Lindon, in a fine, subtle performance) impulsively shaves the mustache he's worn for most of his adult life, then waits to see what Agnes will say when she finally notices. She doesn't, or at least she pretends not to. Nor do friends Serge (Mathieu Almaric) and Nadia (Macha Polikarpova) seem aware of any change in his appearance when Marc and Agnes later arri...