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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780029088
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780029089
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 19, 2004
Running Time: 86 minutes
Sales Rank: 30726
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
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Description:
Twelve-year old Anaïs is fat. Her older sister, Eléna, is a teenage beauty. While on vacation with her parents, Anaïs tags along behind Eléna, exploring the dreary seaside town. Eléna meets Fernando, an Italian law student, who seduces her with promises of love, as the ever-watchful Anaïs bears witness to the corruption of her sister’s innocence. Precise and uncompromising, Fat Girl (À Ma soeur!) is a bold dissection of sibling rivalry and female adolescent sexuality from one of contemporary cinema’s most controversial directors.
Amazon.com:
Fat Girl is a typically shocking, utterly discomfiting provocation from director Catherine Breillat, whose excursions into female psychology and movie sexuality are anything but clinical. (See 36 Fillette and Romance for further proof.) Two adolescent sisters journey to the seaside on vacation with their parents; the younger sister is overweight and brooding, the older girl a beauty who attracts the attention of a smooth-talking boy. Much of the film is built around two painstaking seduction scenes, characteristically shot by Breillat with both comic and horrific overtones and long, uncomfortable takes. The final section then tips into an outright descent into hell--you can never let your guard down with Breillat. So complicated were the seduction scenes that Breillat subsequently made a feature about the shooting of them, Sex Is Comedy. Fat Girl was released under an alternate title, A ma soeur!, but Fat Girl, in English, is Breillat's original and preferred title. --Robert Horton
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
This is less of a story than a character study of two sullen teenage siblings: a withdrawn, overweight thirteen-year-old (Reboux) and her beautiful, shallow elder sister (Mesquida). The sparse plot primarily concentrates on the complex, contradictory relationship between the two sisters, which is strained by a fling with a young Italian man (Rienzo) that the latter indulges in while their family is on vacation. The deliberate pace of this film is less a means to relate a story than to showcase some ... Read More
Rating:  -
Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat, 2001)
So I've now finally seen a Catherine Breillat film. And it's been a month, and I'm still not exactly sure how I feel about it. For a film that runs less than ninety minutes, it tends to the long-winded and didactic. On the other hand, it's one of the few serious films to treat adolescent sexuality with the directness (and, in some perverse way, the reverence) it deserves. On the third hand (can I borrow one of your hands?), Breillat, in her quest for ... Read More
Rating:  -
WARNING !!!
SPOILER ALERT
Save yourself an hour and a half of garbage ... Read This.
So the film drags along for over and hour. The skinny 15 yr old sister who is still a virgin and prefers to keep her virginity gets sodomized in front of her little obese 12 yr old sister by this italian college guy.
Then she finally decides to lose her virginity to this guy, once again in front of her little sister. The little fat girl sobs and cries while this is happening. ... Read More
Rating: -
Relevant, but shocking subject matter, plus out of the blue "What the heck..." ending. This film, almost 8 years old is undoubtedly innovative, which I appreciate. My fear is that Hollywood is chomping at the bit ready to stretch the boundaries of what censors and the mainstream American viewing public should be watching. As in "The Piano" where a lead actor is so young that they aren't allowed to view the finished product, one must question the moral aspect in terms of child abuse.
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Title was probably not the best in the world but the film is certainly not as bad as the title may suggest.
2 teenage girls go on holiday to their summer house with mum and dad. One a girl who knows herself to be attractive and the other a chubby girl, out of place and out of step with her older sister. The older sister has all but embraced adulthood while the younger one still clings to her childhood. The older sister dresses like a typical teenage girl while the younger is plain and shabbily ... Read More
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