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Look at Me
EMAILPRINTSony Pictures Classics

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 30 critic reviews
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Based on 8 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Drama | Foreign | Romance
Written by:
Jean-Pierre Bacri (scenario)
Agnès Jaoui (scenario)
Directed by: Agnès Jaoui
Release Date:
Theatrical: April 1, 2005
DVD: August 9, 2005
Running Time: 110 minutes, Color
Origin: France / Italy
Language(s): French (with English subtitles)
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for brief language and a sexual reference
Starring Marilou Berry, Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Laurent Grévill, Virginie Desarnauts, Keine Bouhiza, Grégoire Oestermann, and Serge Riaboukine
The story of human beings who know perfectly what they would do in someone else's place but don't do very well in their own. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
The wry filmmaker has created an urbane society of family and friends as ridiculously pretentious and hypocritical as they are cultured, accomplished, and posh.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
A marvelous, uncommonly observant, and unexpectedly rousing group portrait.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
This audience-pleaser is smart and acerbic. Jaoui has an uncanny ear - as director, co-writer and part of the inspired ensemble cast - for human foibles, self-deception, celebrity worship and female body issues.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
While Look at Me at times falls into familiar plotting, it never offers false hope or false characters.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
Brilliant, blistering account of the many ways fame deforms a star, his family and his fans.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
What makes Look at Me such a deeply satisfying experience is its ability to combine insightful character portraits like this with wickedly funny situations that slyly skewer all-too-human weaknesses.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
This bonbon spiked with malice is a triumph for Jaoui, who takes witty and wounding measure of the small betrayals that leave bruises on us all.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
With a light, sometimes hilarious touch, Look at Me deflates the pretensions and self-obsessed nature of a group of wealthy Parisian literati, but its observations about the effects of fame and success and our natural desire to fan them as high as they can go, apply to anyone within range of reality-TV culture.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
A witty and psychologically perceptive look at the Parisian literary scene.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
In lesser hands, all this might border on misanthropy. But Jaoui's direction, plus the note-perfect cast, manage two redeeming feats:
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The thing about a movie like this is, the characters may be French, but they're more like people I know than they could ever be in the Hollywood remake.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
A movie of biting social observation. And it masterfully avoids Manichaean simplicity.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Ella Taylor
Directed by Agnès Jaoui, who made the equally delightful "The Taste of Others," this comedy of manners with a serious purpose centers on a group of loosely connected neurotics, all working in the rarefied worlds of amateur chorales.
Read Full Review >Variety Lisa Nesselson
Punchy dialogue, excellent thesping and a real feel for the universal tuning fork of great classical music make this a prime candidate for international arthouse play.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
The latest in a series of stiletto-sharp social comedies by the French filmmakers Jean-Pierre Bacri and Agnès Jaoui.
The New York Times Dana Stevens
A witty and acute examination of friendship, ambition and betrayal in the Parisian literary world.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
Look at Me marks the character's shift from being the object of attention to the subject of her own dreams.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
Look at Me is on the talky side, but like Jaoui's directing debut, "The Taste of Others," it offers uniformly excellent performances and smart observations on social and family interactions.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
It is for a particular audience - those who like films that concentrate on character rather than plot, and who aren't put off by subtitles.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
While Jaoui's film is interesting to watch, it dawdles enough to lose its storytelling grip.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Michael Atkinson
Little in a Jaoui film is particularly original, but it's all perfectly convincing.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
The film satisfies in much the same way Allen's movie-a-year comedies used to satisfy.
Read Full Review >The New Republic Stanley Kauffmann
Jaoui directs with flow and affection, and she plays Sylvia sensitively. Bacri has the right middle-aged assortment of humors.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
The French title is Comme une image ("like an image"), but Tennessee Williams's phrase "the catastrophe of success" seems more appropriate.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
Look at Me is a virtuoso exercise in domestic tension - with the emphasis on "exercise."
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
The multitalented Jaoui and Bacri excel on every level; her direction is efficient and unobtrusive, their script dissects the nuances of corruption by celebrity with a razor-sharp scalpel, and they deliver a pair of subtly unsparing performances.
Read Full Review >Slate David Edelstein
This is a bleak, unresolved film, with no release. What keeps it from being a mortal bummer is the music-exquisite sacred choral works, plus Mozart.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.7 (out of 10) based on 8 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Romy D. gave it a10:
Beautiful tough drama-comedy about the dictatorship of image and the difficulties to survive to your parents... Bacri and Jaoui besides being fantastic actors proved once again to be able with their scripts to talk poignantly about the subtle violence and traumas we tend to hide in everyday life. Their mirrors are unconventionally funny but also deeply truthful.
David K. gave it a4:
Very little actually *happens* in this movie, and while I suppose we're supposed to be drawn into the frustrations of this poor girl's life, she's less interesting than most of the folks you'd meet on a bus ride in Boston. We (at 42) were the youngest folks in the packed theater, and I'm guessing that the movie was comfortable for the audience in that nobody's heart would race out of control. Seriously, take a camcorder around your neighborhood and talk with people about their own lives... it'll have more depth than "Look at Me."
Barry B gave it an8:
Look at Me is a French film directed by Agnes Jaoui who also co-stars in the film with her off-screen husband Jean-Pierre Bacri. Both wrote the screenplay for this insightful look at the human condition told in the interesting backdrop of the French literary and arts community. The film has a number of messages and subtleties that are conveyed to the viewer easily and clearly in spite of the English titles that support the all French dialogue save for the on screen playing of “It’s a good day” sung by Peggy Lee. The film earns and gets an 80. Ms Jaoui’s acting is only superceded by her superb job of directing as the film flows along telling its story simply yet profoundly. A winner for this husband and wife team and the others in the cast whose contributions are likewise vital and significant.
David K. gave it an8:
A bit slow to start, but insightful
