Product: Look at Me ( Comme une image ) ( Cos fan tutti ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.4 Import - Australia ]
Rating: 4.0
Intruiging French talk-drama
I love foreign movies and I happen to pick this up from my local library the other day."Comme Une Image" (2004; 110 min.; released in the US as "Look At Me") is a very French movie, and by that I mean there is a LOT of talking going on throughout the movie, without seemingly a lot of plot moving. But that is quite deceiving. There are a number of subplots all developing at the same time, such as: a daughter's struggling relationship with her father who is successful in the literally field, both as a writer and a publisher; a writer who publishes a successful book after many struggles and gets torn between leaving his long-time publisher and going to a more prominent publisher (the father of the girl mentioned earlier), and I'm leaving out several other relationship tracks developing in the movie. As the movie goes on, I started to realize that a LOT was going on, even though there seems to be so much "talking".This is the 2nd movie directed by well-known French actress Agnes Ajoui (who plays the wife of the suddenly successful writer in the movie), and quite well done at that. She directed another movie in 2008 "Parlez-moi de la Pluie", which I will be sure to check out. Special kudos for the performance of Marilou Berry , who is outstanding as the struggling daughter seeking the approval of her father. In all, I really enjoyd this movie from start to finish.