Word: lolita
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...falls for an actress and her bohemian lifestyle - that proved their breakout hit, winning four César awards and an Academy Award nomination. Their latest (and Jaoui's second turn behind the camera after The Taste of Others) is Comme une Image (Look at Me), the story of Lolita, an awkward young woman, and her father, Etienne, a self - obsessed celebrity author. As Lolita brings other people into her father's orbit, their efforts to become part of his clique cause marriages to crumble and friendships to implode. Darker and more nuanced than The Taste of Others, Look...
...Lolita spends most of the film either ignored by her father, Etienne (played by Bacri), besotted with her singing teacher, Sylvia (Jaoui) or chasing after a boy who doesn't want her. But Berry keeps her character optimistic and determined, going from lovable to intolerable and back again while she fights to find a place in her father's world. As Etienne, Bacri is brutal, callous and beyond redemption. In The Taste of Others, Bacri's lovelorn character is cranky but harmless; in Look at Me, he's pure bastard. His young wife, Karine, and his put-upon assistant, Vincent...
...topic. Alas, Isaac was interested in the girl, not the spiritual epiphany. I had planned our trip from Boston, preparing for an exotic land of kimonos and haikus; my brother packed his bags in Taiwan, thinking of schoolgirl uniforms and manga comics. Isaac won. As Last Samurai morphed into Lolita, even I became an accomplice. The best way to snap pictures of unsuspecting females is to position your frumpy sister in front of them. Schoolgirls on bikes, young mothers at the mall, Shinto priestesses on festival barges…and the sister can be erased with Photoshop?...
...CHUNG: For me, one of the defining scenes of cinema is in Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita, when a middle-aged Winters begins rabidly beating James Mason, her vacant, utterly expressionless face unambiguously channeling her fiery rage upon learning of her husband’s affair with her daughter. But I digress...
...compelling questions, but the real fun is watching Hugo squirm and rant like a crazed Frasier Crane as he desperately tries to avoid the company of his fellow characters, whom he despises almost as much as he hates himself. Hugo belongs on the same gnarled family tree as Lolita's Humbert Humbert as well as--somewhere deep down in the root system--Hannibal Lecter. They fascinate because they reconcile exquisite refinement with total loathsomeness with an ease that suggests some chilling, unspoken connection between...