A reflection both on the corrupting power of fame and the disappointments of family life, this effortlessly entertaining film from the makers of the acclaimed Le Goût des Autres (The Taste of Others) picked up this year's Best Screenplay Award at Cannes. Co-scripter Jean-Pierre Bacri plays Étienne - a famous novelist who is monstrously self-centred and indifferent to the unhappiness of his daughter Lolita. She in turn is overweight and sulky, a gifted but insecure aspiring soprano who constantly craves her father's approval. Lolita's apparent docility conceals a deep undercurrent of loathing, both for herself and for a world which she feels judges her solely on her appearance and, to add insult to injury, it seems that every person she meets wants to know her solely as means of getting to her famous father. With a witty, urbane script, an incredible ensemble of captivating performances and a superb classical score running throughout, Comme Une Image estabishes Agnès Jaoui as one of the major creative forces in contemporary French cinema after just two films as a writer-director.