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IT TAKES TWO Husband and wife movie-making team AGNES JAOUI and JEAN- PIERRE BACRI tell Tom Dawson about their latest award-winning project, Look at Me.
With just two features (both of which have starred her co-writer and husband Jean-Pierre Bacri) under her directorial belt, the actress and filmmaker Agnes Jaoui has established herself as one of the most significant talents in contemporary French cinema. During the 19905 the duo wrote for the theatre and had their screenplays directed by the likes of Cedric Klapisch and Alan Resnais, until eventually Jaoui seized the opportunity to direct one of her and Bacri’s scripts. The result was The Taste of Others, which was seen by nearly two million people in France. Jaoui’s latest film, Look at Me, a barbed yet moving comedy of manners set within the Parisian publishing scene, won the Best Screenplay award at this year’s Cannes festival. ‘We make the movies we want to see as spectators,‘ explains the engaging Jaoui. ‘I think our movies are impossible to pitch at Hollywood meetings - we like it that people don’t know what is going to happen in them.’
Look at Me concerns itself with a nightmaristh egotistical author Etienne (memorably played by Bacri himself), who treats his overweight 20-year- old daughter Lolita with wounding indifference. A promising musical singer, she is consumed with feelings of self-loathing with regard to her appearance, and resents how people befriend her as a way to meet her famous father. ‘We wanted to explore the theme of power and how you deal with it in ordinary life,’ says Jaoui. ‘And we wanted to show that from the point of view of a victim.’ ‘But we were nervous,’ adds Bacri, ‘because of the success of The Taste of Others, and because we were the only known actors in the film. Three of the cast were making their movie debuts, and so we felt we were taking a real risk.’
There’s an appealing flow to the storytelling in Look at Me, which allows us to appreciate the multiple ironies at play and the skill with which Jaoui brings together the different narrative strand for the film’s unusual denouement, a classical music recital at a rural church. ‘Our taste is for a style where nothing seems to be happening in general and something is happening all the time,’ says Bacri. ‘lt’s like that quote from Flaubert about his aim when writing - to be present everywhere and visible nowhere.’
Given that Jaoui and Bacri (pictured with Virginie Desarnauts) are themselves a famous media couple in France, one wonders how they avoid being sucked into the very celebrity-fixated world, which they so amusingly dissect in Look at Me. ‘I don’t like going to parties or opening nights,’ admits Jaoui. ‘And we never go on TV. That protects us a lot. Very few people recognise me in the street, so I think I have much less power than the weather girl.’
I Look at Me opens at GFT Glasgow and Cameo Edinburgh from Fr/ 5 Now. See review. page 48.
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