Rent Fat Girl (2001)
3.3 of 5 from 103 ratings
1h 22min
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- Synopsis:
- Anais is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. Her body is both a fortress and the citadel for her pain. Huddled safely alone, and forgotten by others, she has long been an observer. It's summertime. Anais and her family holiday by the sea. In this atmosphere, Anais yearns for the experience of first love. However, she experiences it by proxy when her beautiful older sister, Elena - whom Anais both loves and hates - gets involved with an older boy. Soon Elena's naive hopes of romance will be shattered. Not realising that she has merely become an object of desire, she sets a chain of events in motion that will shatter her family forever...
- Actors:
- Anaïs Reboux, Roxane Mesquida, Libero De Rienzo, Arsinée Khanjian, Romain Goupil, Laura Betti, Albert Goldberg, Odette Barrière, Ann Matthijsse, Pierre Renverseau, Jean-Marc Boulanger, Frederick Bodin, Michel Guillemin, Josette Cathalan, Claude Sesé, Marc Samuel
- Directors:
- Catherine Breillat
- Writers:
- Catherine Breillat
- Aka:
- A Ma Soeur!
- Studio:
- Tartan
- Genres:
- Drama
- Collections:
- Female Filmmakers Who Changed French Cinema
- Countries:
- France
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Reviews (2) of Fat Girl
Brave and provocative. - Fat Girl review by TE
Genuinely edgy film-making by Breillat. She probes away at the viewer's assumptions about teeenage female sexuality, and about the casual cruelty of the bourgeois family unit.
The grudging tenderness between the sisters is the only true warmth on display. The opening dialogue between the pair sets up the calculated shock of the ending, which represents the most horrific irony.
This is provocative cinema at its best.
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French film at cutting edge or at its worst? - Fat Girl review by JS
Thankfully a short film by French cinema standards but still too long
Girl meets boy - 15 minutes
Seduction/rape - 30 minutes
Family discussion - 10 minutes
Further rape - 10 minutes
Poor acting by his mother - 10 minutes
Motorway driving with limited speech - 10 minutes
Unconvincing murder - 10 minutes
No psychology, just brutalism and neopornography?
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