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上海向来是外资企业的集中地，这里居住着来自各个国家的外国人。于是，上海的保姆业有了一个新的需求，那就是涉外保姆，由于东西方文化的不同，涉外保姆在雇主家亦因此多了许多摩擦和碰撞。本片讲述的就是涉外保姆在老外家酸甜苦辣的故事。 巧云（吴玉芳饰）本事一家国有企业的办公室人员，无奈企业改制下了岗。屋漏偏逢连夜雨，此时丈夫出轨离家出走了，巧云不得不负担起养活一家人的重担。通过介绍，巧云来到了一家美国公司的总裁莫尔夫妇家当保姆。莫尔家的小捣蛋鬼弗兰克异常调皮，想尽办法处处为难巧云。 下岗女工吴根兄（杨昆饰）性格泼辣，在别人介绍下进入了一个香港老板家当保姆。这个家的老板娘黄太太其实是二奶，刁钻刻薄的她难以伺候。 外来工香草（丁丹妮饰）在墨西哥植物学家雷切尔家做保姆，雷切尔虽然善良热心，但为人十分正直，两人亦经常因此口角不断……。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。