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Look at Me (2004)
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Bittersweet, sophisticated and very talky, this is the kind of film only the French can pull off. Young music student Lolita Cassard (Marilou Berry), a voluptuous beauty who is obsessed with her weight, pines for the affection of her self-absorbed novelist father Etienne (Jean-Pierre Bacri). Director Agnès Jaoui (Le Goût des Autres) plays Lolita's singing teacher, Sylvia, who is brought into the family's orbit when her own novelist husband befriends Etienne. Another half dozen characters, each lovelorn or damaged in some way, populate the seemingly casual but deftly constructed plot, which climaxes with a huge row in a country house — as they tend to do in French films. This is a wise and elegant comedy in which the dialogue, even in subtitles, really does fizz. LF
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Running time
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106mins
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Country of origin
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Fr / It
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Genre
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Comedy Drama
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Alternate title
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Comme une Image
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Original language
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French
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Screenplay
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Jean-Pierre Bacri, Agnès Jaoui
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Theatrical distributor
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Pathé
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UK cinema certificate
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12A
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UK cinema release date
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November 2004
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Subtitling information
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In French with subtitles
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| Cannes International Film Festival 2004 |
Screenplay |
Jean-Pierre Bacri |
Winner |
| Cannes International Film Festival 2004 |
Screenplay |
Agnès Jaoui |
Winner |
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