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...make her own way. After leaving school at 17, she enrolled in a Paris drama conservatory, taking acting classes and theater internships just like other aspiring thespians. During her third year of training, Berry's class was visited by a casting director working with the writing-directing couple Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri to fill the roles in Look at Me. Berry was asked to read for Lolita along with a flock of professional actresses and fellow neophytes. "Six months went by, I heard nothing, and I moved on thinking it was over," recalls Berry. "Then they...
...glance, the playgrounds of St. Joan of Arc look filled with active, healthy and energetic kids. But on a recent day, a group of friends - hiding from the teachers in a far corner - could be seen scoffing down sweets and chocolates with guilty delight. "Balance is the key," says Agnès Lommez, coordinator for the school district's food program. "Kids understand this. They can and should eat junk food. Just not every...
...that's why the directive has such powerful opponents. Professionals ranging from British midwives to French interior decorators are wary of unfair competition from foreign rivals who may not be subject to the same stringent national rules. "The major problem is that it will create unfair competition," says Agnès Thibault, secretary-general of the European Builders Confederation, which is seeking an exemption from the directive. Unions across Western Europe have raised the specter of an army of low-paid service workers without social benefits arriving from Central and Eastern Europe, undercutting prices and destroying local jobs. Some government...
...glance, they make an unlikely pair. He's intense and weathered - the kind of guy who shows up to interviews untucked and unshaven. She's easygoing and glamorous (as a young girl, she dreamed of being a princess). But when it comes to making movies, Jean-Pierre Bacri and Agnès Jaoui are a perfect match: they act, they produce, and as a screenwriting team, they are French cinema's sharpest critics of the bourgeois élite, people whose relationships they portray as always on the brink of collapse and whose dinner parties combust into uncivil wars. Bacri...
...Sylvia for the sake of her husband, an up-and-coming writer whom Etienne has taken on as his pet project; Vincent because he's paid to. And, because this is a Bacri-Jaoui film, when people are faced with their flaws, they talk - and talk. "When Agnès and I work together, we each write a few scenes and then we discuss," says Bacri. "And if we disagree, we have a rule about complete intellectual honesty, so we'll debate until one convinces the other. Very much like what ends up in our films." In Look...