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Look at Me

2004 · 1h 50m · PG-13 Comedy, Drama
Directed by Agnès Jaoui

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Overview

Talented 20-year-old Lolita dreams of a singing career. But her self-esteem is low due to her weight problem and her narcissistic father, Étienne, a literary star with scant interest in his daughter's life. Lolita finds little comfort in the attentions of her vocal coach, suspecting the woman is using her to meet her influential father. Étienne's second wife proves to be Lolita's only trustworthy ally in her private battle to find a sense of worth.

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88%
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Fresh

The pleasure of the film, as in many French films from Renoir to Rohmer, is in the exactitude of observation, the accuracy of the portrait and the elegance of the writing.

Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic
Fresh

Both an implicit protest against the blindness of power and an equally fervent protest against the acquiescence of men and women who are too weak or too compromised to stand up for themselves -- that is, most people.

Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Fresh

At best, a most watchable character study of lives that are more interesting than compelling.

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Fresh

[Has] a light, sometimes hilarious touch.

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
Fresh

Jaoui sets her wryly observant sights on family, artistic ambition and the tyranny of physical appearance, and the result is a bright, briskly moving film whose modest scale belies the universality of its themes.

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

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