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An aspiring actress can't get the attention she needs from her famous father who spends his life bullying all those around him. | score B |
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| Cast Marilou Berri, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Agnes Jaoui Director Agnes Jaoui Screenwriter Agnes Jaoui Country France (subtitles) Rating / Running Time PG / 110 minutes Australian Release March 2005 Official Site (c) moviereview
2005
ABN 72 775 390 361 |
Look At Me
is a world apart from the family drama played out in Fountain Lakes. In
Paris, twenty year old Lolita is an aspiring actress hampered by
self-doubt, poor body image and a celebrity father. He’s a famous
French author who never finds enough time or the right words to give
her the loving approval she so desperately seeks. Consequently,
she’s pissed off with the world around her and her father’s
boundless self-centred antagonism, arrogance and conceit toward
friends, family and colleagues. This bullying eventually drives the man
to a place of redemption, but it’s a long hard journey for those
around him and his daughter in particular. Now what sounds like so much
misanthropic Euro-angst is, in the hands of director Anges Jaoui, an
erudite, witty and frequently funny family drama under an unforgiving
spotlight of cold, hard truth. It’s also a story about people who
know how to run everybody’s life, except their own. Look At Me
picked up a Best Screenplay award at Cannes and opened this years
French Film Festival. It’s a rousing character story of girl
power buoyed by electric performances; particularly those of Marilou
Berry and Jean-Pierre Bacri as Lolita and her father. Look At Me
is a sophisticated, character-driven movie in which plot often takes a
back seat to emotional truth and people who aren’t all that
likeable, a lot of the time. Which, paradoxically, makes it all the
more enjoyable. And if any of this sounds even slightly familiar, then
you’re in for a treat. // COLIN FRASER |