One Paragraph Movie Review: The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short

Three hundred and fiftieth film: The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short, a 1965 Belgian film in which director Andre Delvaux tells the story from the mentally unstable main character’s point of view, leaving us unsure of what is real and what is just the fantastical imaginings of a sad old sex pest. Basically, schoolteacher Govert is obsessed with his oblivious student Fran, and lets his obsession ruin his life — he changes jobs and towns — until he goes proper insane, culminating in him imagining that he has murdered Fran. Eventually institutionalised, he tends a garden, does woodwork, and remembers that he probably let his wife and kids down a bit. While the blurry line between reality and hallucination is interesting, this is another movie that could have been an email and that email would have read “Dear teachers, students are not love interests. Regards, management. PS: you’re fired”. Also, to the reviews I read that called this ‘unrequited love’, wake up and smell the stalker. One unexpected open air graveyard autopsy out of five.