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Fat Girl

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Original title

À ma soeur (Fat Girl)

Year

2001

Running time

83 min.

Country

France

Director

Catherine Breillat

Screenwriter

Catherine Breillat

Cast

Music

Jean-Paul Jamot, Fabrice Nguyen Thai

Cinematography

Giorgos Arvanitis

Producer

Co-production France-Italy;

Flach Film, CB Films, arte France Cinéma, Immagine e Cinema, Urania Picture

Genre

Drama | Erotic. Family Relationships. Teen/coming-of-age

Movie Groups

New French Extremity

Synopsis

A Ma Soeur! is a provocative and shocking drama about sibling rivalry, family discord and relationships. Elena is 15, beautiful and flirtatious. Her less confident sister, Anais, is 12, and constantly eats. On holiday, Elena meets a young Italian student who is determined to seduce her. Anais is forced to watch in silence, conspiring with the lovers, but harbouring jealousy and similar desires. Their actions, however, have unforeseen tragic consequences for the whole family.

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Awards: 2001: Berlin Film Festival: Official Selection

2001: Chicago International Film Festival: Gold Hugo - Best Movie

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Critics' reviews

"[It] is much more than a perfectly realized vignette about seduction. It is the latest and most powerful dispatch yet from Ms. Breillat"

Stephen Holden: The New York Times
"This is not a film softened and made innocuous by timid studio executives after 'test screenings.' There is a jolting surprise in discovering that this film has free will (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: rogerebert.com
"Once [Breillat's] sexual politics snap cruelly into focus, 'Fat Girl' becomes not just unsettling, but repellent."

Scott Tobias: AV Club
"Throughout her career, Breillat has probed the problems of heterosexual women with unflinching candor (...) This new film is arguably her most successful exploration of the subject, at least until the savage conclusion"

David Stratton: Variety
"It's a lean, mean movie, and not a pretty one, but it leaves no question as to Breillat's angular originality as a filmmaker."

Stephanie Zacharek: Salon
"A startling vision of the prickly crawlspace between innocence and sexual awakening (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"

Ed Gonzalez: Slant
"Bold but unrelenting in its depiction of both physical and emotional aggression, Fat Girl will be bracing for those open to its challenges and brutal for those who aren't."

Geoff Pevere: Toronto Star
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