Comme une image (2004)
(Look at Me)
Country: FR/IT
Technical: Technovision 111m
Director: Agnès Jaoui
Cast: Marilou Berry, Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Serge Riaboukine, Laurent Grévill
Synopsis:
The neglected daughter of an insensitive publisher/author takes singing lessons from the wife of an author, and potential client, whose career is given a fillip thanks to the connection.
Review:
A witty and moving comedy of manners which contrives to be both things just as it keeps its twin plot ideas in the air: on the one hand it examines the self-image of women in a certain stratum of society, and the extent to which they endure rather than enjoy their male companions; on the other it is a satire of the educated class's artistic pretensions, the gap between artistic and commercial success. Jaoui and Bacri confirm their growing status as sophisticated writer-performers of the Rohmer/Sautet school.
(Look at Me)
Country: FR/IT
Technical: Technovision 111m
Director: Agnès Jaoui
Cast: Marilou Berry, Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Serge Riaboukine, Laurent Grévill
Synopsis:
The neglected daughter of an insensitive publisher/author takes singing lessons from the wife of an author, and potential client, whose career is given a fillip thanks to the connection.
Review:
A witty and moving comedy of manners which contrives to be both things just as it keeps its twin plot ideas in the air: on the one hand it examines the self-image of women in a certain stratum of society, and the extent to which they endure rather than enjoy their male companions; on the other it is a satire of the educated class's artistic pretensions, the gap between artistic and commercial success. Jaoui and Bacri confirm their growing status as sophisticated writer-performers of the Rohmer/Sautet school.
(Look at Me)
Country: FR/IT
Technical: Technovision 111m
Director: Agnès Jaoui
Cast: Marilou Berry, Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Serge Riaboukine, Laurent Grévill
Synopsis:
The neglected daughter of an insensitive publisher/author takes singing lessons from the wife of an author, and potential client, whose career is given a fillip thanks to the connection.
Review:
A witty and moving comedy of manners which contrives to be both things just as it keeps its twin plot ideas in the air: on the one hand it examines the self-image of women in a certain stratum of society, and the extent to which they endure rather than enjoy their male companions; on the other it is a satire of the educated class's artistic pretensions, the gap between artistic and commercial success. Jaoui and Bacri confirm their growing status as sophisticated writer-performers of the Rohmer/Sautet school.