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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Jaoui’s earlier ensemble piece has the same incisive, compassionate feel for social aspiration, artistic pretension, and people misreading one another across class and cultural circles.
02
Why this pick
Written by Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, this tightly observed family gathering delivers similarly funny, painful dialogue and a clear-eyed tenderness toward flawed, status-conscious people.
03
Why this pick
Its awkward provincial encounters and competing self-images extend the dry humor and moral complexity of Look at Me, with affection beneath the social discomfort.
04
Why this pick
A birthday party becomes a sharp, layered comedy of creative vanity, old resentments, and social performance—very much in the observant Jaoui-Bacri vein.
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Why this pick
For Look at Me’s humane interest in dignity and moral blind spots, this warm Marseille drama offers an equally unshowy, socially attentive portrait of ordinary lives.
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01 / THE STORY
Sylvia Millet, a singing teacher, discovers that one of her students, Lolita, is the daughter of Étienne Cassard, a writer she admires. Thanks to Lolita, Sylvia and her husband Pierre, himself a writer, will join Étienne's circle of friends. Gradually, Sylvia realizes that Etienne is not the man she imagined and that he has little respect for his daughter, Lolita.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Lolita Cassard
Étienne Cassard
Sylvia Millet
Pierre Millet
Karine Cassard
Vincent, assistant d'Étienne
Félix
Édith
