Comme une Image (Look at Me) (Like an Image) (2004)

Critic Reviews

• Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic

  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.

• Anthony Lane, New Yorker

  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.

• Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

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

• Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

  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.

• Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle

  An overrated mound of misery.

• Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

  The self-involved characters in this emotionally smart, beautifully acted and uncommonly insightful film help us look at ourselves.

• Cole Smithey, ColeSmithey.com

  "Look at Me" is a wholesome work of fully rounded dramaturgy that spins on a gyroscope of sustained emotional momentum.

• Cynthia Fuchs, Common Sense Media

  A young French singer comes to terms with her father's limits.

• Kam Williams, Princeton Town Topics

  Examines a variety of questions, such as superficiality versus substance, materialism versus self-worth, and taking advantage of others versus forming sincere relationships.

• Michael Ferraro, Film Threat

  Sadly, too much focus is spent on showing character traits that any kind of coherent story or compassion for characters is destroyed.

• James Plath, Movie Metropolis

  Look at Me is a rich portrait of human interaction that's full of witty lines.

• Donald Munro, Fresno Bee

  Forces the audience to ride the waves of some complicated relationships without having a built-in hero or heroine for which to root.

• James Sanford, Kalamazoo Gazette

  a sharp illustration of how it feels to resent someone you know you're supposed to love.

• Leo Goldsmith, Not Coming to a Theater Near You

  Agnès Jaoui's second film is the type of light, Foucauldian romantic comedy that only the French can make.

• Enrique Buchichio, Uruguay Total

  (...) Una comedia humana que incluso depara, según la sensibilidad de cada uno, varias notas de emoción.

• John Beifuss, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

  The work of a wry, generous filmmaker who wants to sympathize with even her most self-centered characters...

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