The New York Times by Dana Stevens
A witty and acute examination of friendship, ambition and betrayal in the Parisian literary world.
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France, Italy · 2004
Rated PG-13 · 1h 50m
Director Agnès Jaoui
Starring Marilou Berry, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Agnès Jaoui, Laurent Grévill
Genre Comedy, Drama
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Talented 20-year-old Lolita dreams of a singing career. But her self-esteem is low due to her weight problem and her narcissistic father, Étienne, a literary star with scant interest in his daughter's life. Lolita finds little comfort in the attentions of her vocal coach, suspecting the woman is using her to meet her influential father. Étienne's second wife proves to be Lolita's only trustworthy ally in her private battle to find a sense of worth.
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The New York Times by Dana Stevens
A witty and acute examination of friendship, ambition and betrayal in the Parisian literary world.
A tender, indignant, but also very worldly movie.
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
While Jaoui's film is interesting to watch, it dawdles enough to lose its storytelling grip.
Directed by Agnès Jaoui, who made the equally delightful "The Taste of Others," this comedy of manners with a serious purpose centers on a group of loosely connected neurotics, all working in the rarefied worlds of amateur chorales.
Punchy dialogue, excellent thesping and a real feel for the universal tuning fork of great classical music make this a prime candidate for international arthouse play.
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
The wry filmmaker has created an urbane society of family and friends as ridiculously pretentious and hypocritical as they are cultured, accomplished, and posh.
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
The multitalented Jaoui and Bacri excel on every level; her direction is efficient and unobtrusive, their script dissects the nuances of corruption by celebrity with a razor-sharp scalpel, and they deliver a pair of subtly unsparing performances.
Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
Little in a Jaoui film is particularly original, but it's all perfectly convincing.
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
This bonbon spiked with malice is a triumph for Jaoui, who takes witty and wounding measure of the small betrayals that leave bruises on us all.
The film satisfies in much the same way Allen's movie-a-year comedies used to satisfy.
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