Blucher One of the worst movies I've ever seen

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Borgarkeri A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

robert-temple-1 This is a remarkable and moving film, though due to its complexity it starts slowly. At first, we have no idea who all these people are and how they relate to one another. (In the beginning of the story, they don't, is the answer.) The film is directed by, and stars, a highly talented woman, Agnes Jaoui, and the original screenplay is written by her and Jean-Pierre Bacri. Bacri has thus helped to create a mercilessly unflattering part for himself, which he plays in the film, of a man so obsessed with himself and his celebrity that he notices no one, least of all his daughter from a previous marriage to a woman he didn't love. This daughter, played with enormous sensitivity and courage by Marilou Berry, is the central character in the story. She lacks self-confidence because she has never been given any. She is overweight, believes herself to be hopelessly ugly and uninteresting, and longs only to be noticed by her father and perhaps even to receive from him the odd crumb of left-over love which might fall from the altar of his narcissism. She never gets it. But the film is not a 'downer'. The girl, ironically named Lolita (a cruel joke, as it turns out), has a beautiful singing voice, and Agnes Jaoui plays her singing teacher. The film is full of wonderful classical music by Mozart, Monteverdi, and others, and at the latter part of the film important scenes are based round a concert in a small church. There is thus plenty to interest music lovers, especially classical singers. This film is a kind of tapestry of interwoven links between people, which displays their flaws and their strengths, their loves and their hates, and reveals their deepest characters. It is a profound psychological study of human relationships and weaknesses. One comes out of it having learned much more about those strange creatures called humans. Only a woman could have made this film, with its closely observed sense of the most intimate shades of personal nuances between people. Men are too busy being men to notice such subtleties, most of the time.

Henry Fields The relationship between a selfish and vain successful writer that's going' through sort of a midlife crisis and her daughter, a girls that's rather ugly and fat, with so many hang-ups, who feels that his so famous father doesn't give a damn about her. Although the initial premise might look rather dramatic, the truth is that there's so much sense of humor in this movie, especially in the father's character. He's not only a conceited person, but a cynical and full of sarcasm one.Love, doubts, jealousy... There are not much surprises in this kind of cinema, and obviously those who are looking for thrilling experiences won't like it. On the contrary, if you like the movies that are dialog-based, life alike, Eric Rohmer and stuff... well, you should give this one a try.*My rate: 7/10

tomato-13 The main problem: Why develop so many characters if you're just going to end it by resolving one or two conflicts? For me, it seemed incomplete. The characters all seem to be very nicely developed- my favorite character, for instance, was Pierre. What happened to him and his relation to his wife? What about the father and Karine? What about the conflict between Pierre, his wife and Edith? Just seems like a lot of this are left open-ended. That said, the movie has some great lines, music, charming characters, and I recommend it. I never really got the feeling that it dragged on- only that they didn't truly end it- and this bothered me. So, in sum: The problem is that they really focus too much on resolving her little love-thing with Sebastien instead of giving a complete resolution for all the developed characters of the film

Red-125 Comme une image (2004) was co-scripted and directed by Agnès Jaoui. (The film is known as Look at Me in the U.S. It's a reasonable title--just not the title the Director gave it.)The plot concerns a group of educated and successful Parisians whose lives intersect in both Paris and Burgundy. The protagonist is Lolita Cassard, played by Marilou Berry. Lolita is a dedicated vocal student, whose most serious problem is that her father--played by Jean-Pierre Bacri--is too self-absorbed to pay much attention to her. Étienne Cassard is a noted author and publisher, who cares about his work, his position of power, and, to some extent, his beautiful trophy wife and their young daughter (Lolita's half-sister). Lolita's life is more trouble to him than he cares to accept, so he chooses to ignore her or belittle her.Lolita is overweight, and acutely conscious of this because she is surrounded by elegant women of all ages who are slender. Lolita blames her problems on her weight and--reasonably enough--she can't bring herself to accept her father's lack of interest, let alone his lack of compassion.Into this equation comes Sylvia Millet, Lolita's vocal coach. Incredibly, director/screenwriter Jaoui also stars in this pivotal role. (It's hard to believe that Jaoui can be both an outstanding director and an experienced star. It's even harder to believe that she can direct herself in such a nuanced and intelligent performance. She must be Wonder Woman!)Sylvia has true compassion and affection for Lolita, but she's not a saint, and is not above using her influence with Lolita to advance her husband's writing career.To my mind, Agnès Jaoui represents the perfect French film star. She looks talented, intelligent, and strong, and she's also very attractive in a non-conventional way.One reviewer wrote, "Look at Me is about nothing and everything simultaneously." I disagree. It's not about everything, but it is about love, friendship, ambition, hurtfulness, and betrayal.Classical music is played and sung throughout the film, and it's outstanding. Be prepared to hear songs and arias by Verdi, Offenbach, Monteverdi, and Mozart. Jaoui (with her costar Bacri) won the Best Screenplay award at Cannes. With great acting, direction, music and script, this movie is not to be missed!