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| Movie Review: Look at Me Alternate Title: Enough About You, Let's Talk About
ME!
Story: If you like to watch
self-indulgent, self-important, self-absorbed, pompous Parisians up
on the big screen, then check out this latest film by husband and wife
team, Agnes Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri (writers,
director and stars). We meet characters that are easily recognizable
regardless of country of origin. A successful writer is adored (think rock star
status) in Paris and people just want to be near his orbit. His overweight,
whiney 20 year old daughter is correctly suspicious of everyone who
wants to be near her figuring they just want to be closer to her father.
Some of the other characters include the author's second, younger wife
and five year old daughter who are treated as objects, a morose, soon
to be successful author, his music teacher wife, who also wants to be
near the shining celebrity of the successful author and a pathetic assistant
to the celebrity. The only character that has a modicum of humanity
is the young Muslim, who is passing as white. With all that said there were some exceptional
things about the film. The acting is terrific, the sets are real and
the dialogue is believable. My biggest gripe was that I simply did not
give a damn about any of these people. Acting: Agnes Jaoui is both beautiful
and talented as the music teacher. Jean-Pierre-Bacri
is wonderfully despicable as the celebrity author. Marilou Berry
as the overweight daughter hits the nail on the head as a whiney, woe
is me,daughter.
Predilection: None.
Food:You would think there would have been more food
in a French film, but alas there was not much gourmet stuff up on the
big screen.
Blatant Product Placement: Ilford photo paper.
Soundtrack: Who could have a problem with some of
the classical tunes by Handel, Mozart and Bach?
Opening Titles: Don't remember a thing.
Theater Audience: A handful of people.
Sappy Factor: 0
Quirky Meter: 0
Squirm Scale: I wanted to slap some of the characters
around to shake them up.
Predictability Level: High
Tissue Usage: 0
Oscar Worthy: No
Nit Picking: I wish I had given a hoot about anyone,
but perhaps that was the point of the film.
Big Screen or Rental: Neither. But there are a whole
lot of films about dysfunctional families out there if you are interested
in that genre.
Length: Too long at 100 minutes.
LOBO HOWLS: 5
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