Cannes Best Screenplay awarded 'Look At Me' (Comme une Image), a film about a French girl gifted with a great voice, has a complex about her weight and her appearance, will be screened on Tuesday Octoebr 7 at 3.00 pm and Wednesday October 8 at 6.30 pm at Aliance Francaise, Barnes Place, Colombo-7.

Directed by Agnès Jaoui, the film nominated for Golden Palm at Cannes International Film Festival in 2004 is written and stars husband-wife duo, Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri. In it they turn their gaze upon their own kind, or at least, to the vicissitudes of the life of the celebrity writer, drawing a fine portrait of the artist as a venal and self-centred man.

Novelist Etienne Cassard (Bacri) combines Gallic intellectual haughtiness with a whimsical arrogance, and a total disregard for the happiness and wellbeing of those around him. Regularly hit by the rattles flying out of his pram are various flunkys, trophy wife Karine, and his twenty-year-old daughter, Lolita (Marilou Berry). Lolita is pudgy, a talented singer and she is angry that people only see her as a route to her famous father.

Jaoui plays Sylvia, an overworked singing teacher married to struggling writer Pierre, who has to question her motives when asked to help Lolita's amateur group rehearse for a recital.

She swallows her scruples, Cassard takes the pretender under his wing, and the action meanders to a sultry dénouement at Cassard's country house where, on the evening of the concert, tensions come to a head. Comme une Image (Look At Me) is based on a Palmes d'Or winning script that really elevates the film from routine drama into a perceptive study of character and situation.

Frequently hilarious, it's full of naturalistic mutterings and half sentences, dramatising all the small deceptions and compromises even the most well meaning of us are faced with.