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12/30/06
Look at Me (2005)
88 %
Reviews Counted: 95 Fresh: 84 Rotten:11 Average Rating: 7.7/10
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An observant drama-comedy about self absorption.
Rated: 12A
Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
Theatrical Release: 05-11-2004
Synopsis: In this realistic slice-of-life film from French director Agnes Jaoui, a young woman named Lolita (Marilou Berry) with a powerful singing voice and a pouty disposition strives to be everything she is not--perfect, beautiful, popular, and the object of her father's affections. Her father... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Marilou Berry, Agnes Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Laurent Grevill, Virginie Desarnauts
Director: Agnes Jaoui
Screenwriter: Agnes Jaoui
Producer: Jean-Philippe Andraca, Judith Havas, Christian Berard
Composer: Philippe Rombi
Screenwriter: Agnes Jaoui
Producer: Jean-Philippe Andraca, Judith Havas, Christian Berard
Composer: Philippe Rombi
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06/24/06
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05/13/05
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A wry, understated, comic gem populated with wonderful characters, fine performances and, crucially, a great amount of compassion.
11/22/04
A sharp sense of humour and irony keeps this from being yet another talky French film, but only just.
11/08/04
Top Critic
Examines a variety of questions, such as superficiality versus substance, materialism versus self-worth, and taking advantage of others versus forming sincere relationships.
06/20/07
Este tipo de cine puede resultar absolutamente refrescante, en especial cuando la cartelera está llena de cine-consumo, extraño a la vida y enemigo de las neuronas.
05/03/06
Sadly, too much focus is spent on showing character traits that any kind of coherent story or compassion for characters is destroyed.
12/06/05
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09/26/05
Top Critic
Forces the audience to ride the waves of some complicated relationships without having a built-in hero or heroine for which to root.
08/19/05
a sharp illustration of how it feels to resent someone you know you're supposed to love.
08/05/05
Agnès Jaoui’s second film is the type of light, Foucauldian romantic comedy that only the French can make.
06/21/05
(...) Una comedia humana que incluso depara, según la sensibilidad de cada uno, varias notas de emoción.
06/10/05
The work of a wry, generous filmmaker who wants to sympathize with even her most self-centered characters...
05/27/05
A biting and insightful tale of life in Parisian literary circles, and how celebrity and ambition can send ripples through relationships.
05/27/05
Bacri and Jaoui happens to have a soft spot for their countrymen, which results in a warm, funny movie for us to like, too.
05/26/05
Perhaps because she is also an actress, Jaoui understands motivation and interaction, and, with co-star Jean-Pierre Bacri, who plays the father, creates characters of substance and dimension out of scraps of human weakness.
05/26/05
The pleasure of the film, as in many French films from Renoir to Rohmer, is in the exactitude of observation, the accuracy of the portrait and the elegance of the writing.
05/26/05
Jaoui is something of a romantic, yes, but she's also a bit of a cynic – or at least an amused realist.
05/25/05
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