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Look at Me
Sony Pictures Classics
FILM:
MPAA 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)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
|
Drama
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Foreign
|
Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Jean-Pierre Bacri (scenario)
Agnès Jaoui (scenario)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Agnès Jaoui
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 9, 2005
Theatrical: April 1, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
110 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
France / Italy |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
French (with English subtitles) |
Original title "Comme une Image"; Best Screenplay, 2004 Cannes Film Festival

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...
100
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.

100
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
An engrossing new drama from France.

100
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
A marvelous, uncommonly observant, and unexpectedly rousing group portrait.

100
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.

100
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
While Look at Me at times falls into familiar plotting, it never offers false hope or false characters.

100
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Brilliant, blistering account of the many ways fame deforms a star, his family and his fans.

90
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.

88
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.

88
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.

88
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
A witty and psychologically perceptive look at the Parisian literary scene.

88
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:

88
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.

80
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
A movie of biting social observation. And it masterfully avoids Manichaean simplicity.

80
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.

80
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.

80
The New Yorker
David Denby
A tender, indignant, but also very worldly movie.

80
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.
80
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
A witty and acute examination of friendship, ambition and betrayal in the Parisian literary world.

78
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.

75
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.

75
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.

75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
While Jaoui's film is interesting to watch, it dawdles enough to lose its storytelling grip.

70
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Little in a Jaoui film is particularly original, but it's all perfectly convincing.

70
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
The film satisfies in much the same way Allen's movie-a-year comedies used to satisfy.

70
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.

70
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.

70
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Smart, absorbing movie.

63
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Look at Me is a virtuoso exercise in domestic tension - with the emphasis on "exercise."

60
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.

50
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.


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