Fat Girl (À ma soeur!) (2001)
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Reviews Counted: 83
Fresh: 60 | Rotten: 23
The controversial Fat Girl is an unflinchingly harsh but powerful look at female adolescence.
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Critic Reviews: 27
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 3
The controversial Fat Girl is an unflinchingly harsh but powerful look at female adolescence.
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Director Catherine Breillat, who courted international controversy with her film Romance, once again pushed the envelope with this disturbing (if somewhat less explicit) look at adolescent sexuality. Anaïs (Anaïs Reboux) is a 12-year-old girl with a weight problem and a downbeat disposition growing up in a family which offers her little in the way of understanding and affection. Anaïs has a typically adolescent love/hate relationship with her slimmer and prettier 15-year-old sister, Elena
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Cast
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Anaïs Reboux
Anaïs, Anaïs, Ana? -
Roxane Mesquida
Elena -
Libero De Rienzo
Fernando -
Arsinée Khanjian
Mother -
Romain Goupil
Father -
Laura Betti
Fernando's Mother
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All Critics (94) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (63) | Rotten (23) | DVD (16)
[Features a] shocking, ambiguous ending.
Top CriticBold 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.
It's compelling, honest, poignant, somewhat sad and, at the end, very disturbing -- in short, quite a good movie.
This is not one of [Breillat's] better efforts.
Anais is not an object of pity or fun. She simply is. And after seeing Fat Girl, we understand her why and how.
A bracing antidote/response to the sleazy teen-oriented sex comedies that are churned out on an assembly line by mainstream Hollywood.
One of the most disturbing films I've ever seen.
I first saw Fat Girl upon its original US theatrical release in 2001. I left the theater exhilarated. Three years on, I feel I had been fooled.
how you view Breillat's frank attitude toward sexuality-as cynical exploitation or brave exploration-will largely determine your response to her films
Fat Girl is noticeably slim in the extras department, but she looks and sounds better than ever.
A strange, discomfiting and fascinating film about the horrors of adolescence.
Audience Reviews for Fat Girl (À ma soeur!)
Secondly though, it was no doubt controversial and an uncomfortable watch in parts, especially with the nudity, I guess, the disturbing feel is what you are supposed to feel with this storyline, of course you can see it?s purpose yet almost wish it wasn?t necessary.
It cleverly unravelled the manipulation from the male, which is targeted, obviously to the girl because of her age.
Finally the ending, which was totally unexpected, sums up the whole theme of the film and the different view points in which the girls have about their first sexual experience and does not logically make sense, but, I guess the beauty of this film is that, it is illogical and told through the eyes of the innocent.
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I don´t think the end is supposed to shock. From the first scene we know that something is going to happen, even tending to think that Anaïs is going to do something against Elena. When they are driving home and later, in the car, after Elena comes back from the bathroom, it gets obvious. Experimenting her sexuality through her sister´s, when Anaïs says Elena to not think about Fernando and sleep it seems that she´s saying: just sleep, now it´s my turn. She doesn´t try to escape from the murder, she barely tries to resist; she knows that it´s something inevitable as much as it is to a guy falling in love or be attracted to her sister. She doesn´t seem shocked or sad with her mother and sister´s death, but satisfied for knowing how it´s to be desirable - wrongly thinking, of course - and free (or something alike) of the heavily presence (and beauty) of Elena.