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Plot Summary
Twelve-year-old Anaïs is fat. Her sister, fifteen-year-old Elena, is a beauty. While the girls are on vacation with their parents, Anaïs tags along as Elena explores the dreary seaside town. Elena meets Fernando, an Italian law student; he seduces her with promises of love, and the ever watchful Anaïs bears witness to the corruption of her sister's innocence. Fat Girl is not only a portrayal of female adolescent sexuality and the complicated bond between siblings but also a shocking assertion by the always controversial Catherine Breillat that violent oppression exists at the core of male-female relations.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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72%- Reviews Counted: 83
- Fresh: 60
- Rotten: 23
- Average Rating: 6.4/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: Exposes the less sexy things that lust can awaken, like viciousness, deceit and amoral longing.
Rotten: Fat Girl is uncompromising and unforgiving, but ultimately more self-destructive than any of its characters.
Fresh: Represents one of the most honest and unvarnished looks at the harsh side of being a teenager since Todd Solondz's Welcome to the Dollhouse.
Fresh: [Features a] shocking, ambiguous ending.
Customer Reviews
Amazing but a shocker
This movie was one of the first I've seen I mean if we had ti categorize it... Independent film. From France a dynamic shocker and if you think about it... very very realistic. What if moments to yes it can definitely happen to you.
For what it is, it’s good. And there’s a twist at the end...
For the uninitiated, let me warn you Catherine Breillat’s works can be…brutally upfront. When I first saw this movie, it left me with an uneasy feeling. There are a couple of scenes in it that are very disturbing, and if you’re uncomfortable with nudity in general, at any age, you won’t like this movie. It’s not pornographic, it’s artfully done, but there is one bathroom scene I was thinking “Why is this in here?”.
Oh, and true to her style, there is a twist at the end that nobody sees coming. Again, you’re left scratching your head wondering “what did I just see?” If you like Catherine’s style, you know what to expect. If you’re new, this is just as good a film as any to get your feet wet.
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- $19.99
- Genre: Drama
- Released: 2001
- © 2001 Flach Film-CB Films-Arte France Cinéma-Immagine & Cinéma-Urania Pictures