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Look at Me (French: Comme une image) is a 2004 drama film directed by Agnès Jaoui. The movie won "Best Screenplay" award at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. The movie features a clip from the 1948 film Blood on the Moon.
The protagonist, Lolita Cassard, lacks confidence and self-esteem because she doesn't look like the women who fill the pages of fashion magazines. Her father, Étienne Cassard, is a respected novelist, but rarely considers the feelings of others, only thinking of himself and worrying about aging. Pierre Millet, a younger writer, doubts he will ever be successful. Meanwhile, Sylvia Millet, a singing teacher, believes in her husband's talent, but doubts her own and that of her student, Lolita. When Sylvia discovers that Lolita is the daughter of Étienne, an author whom she admires, she befriends Lolita in order to gain access to Étienne for her husband's sake. Lolita does not believe or see that Sylvia is just another person being generous to her because her father is famous. She begins to confide in Sylvia about her father, love life, and self confidence issues. Sylvia surprisingly takes a liking to Lolita and begins to see Étienne for the man he really is. Throughout the film Sébastien, a young journalist, befriends Lolita. He is the only one with pure intents, even after he finds out who her father is. He takes a liking to Lolita, but she refuses to show any interests and is only infatuated with another boy, Mathieu. Mathieu is everything Sébastien is not. Mathieu only has interest for Lolita because of her father and mistreats her. Lolita casts all of these same behaviors on Sébastien and does not realize that he truly does like her for herself. After a crazy weekend at Étienne's cottage, Sylvia leaves Pierre because he has become just like Étienne, Lolita goes after Sébastien because she realizes he has honest intentions, and Étienne is repeatedly reminded that he is an indifferent father to Lolita.
Look at me tell me what you see
Am i everything i'm meant to be
How can you breathe lien next to me
Airs so hard to find when you're with me
I'm leaving you behind
I'm going all alone
And this is what it's like to be on your own
I can't see this time
Stars have left your eyes
Falling down to words that i left behind
It's not me this time
I'm not in your sky
Only difference is that i don't mind
How can i see without you guiding me
To point my life where i'm supposed to be
Where will i be where you can set me free
Those eyes they lie but they don't lie to me
I'm leaving you behind
I'm going all alone
And this is what it's like to be on your own
I can't see this time
Stars have left your eyes
Falling down to words that i left behind
It's not me this time
I'm not in your sky
Only difference is that i don't mind
How do i stop its been so bad
Maybe its time i can go back home
Good intentions only go so far
I can't see this time
Stars have left your eyes
Falling down to words that i left behind
It's not me this time
I'm not in your sky