Look At Me

Jean-Pierre Bacri and Agnes Jaoui won a best screenplay award at the Cannes Film Festival for this pitch-black comedy of contemporary manners about the neglected daughter of a colossally selfish writer and publisher. Plump, 20-year-old Lolita Cassard (Marilou Berry, daughter of French actress and filmmaker Josiane Balasko) wants to be a classical singer, but not as much as she wants her father, celebrity writer Etienne Cassard (Bacri), to acknowledge her existence. Etienne is, however, far too wrapped up in his own concerns — his much younger new wife, Karine (Virginie Desarnauts), and their little girl, his publishing company's upcoming merger with a larger fir...