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Fat Girl (À ma soeur!) (2001)

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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.

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Average Rating: 7.4/10
Critic Reviews: 26
Fresh: 23 | 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

Oct 19, 2004

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All Critics (94) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (63) | Rotten (23) | DVD (16)

[Features a] shocking, ambiguous ending.

April 11, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
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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.

February 24, 2003 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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It's compelling, honest, poignant, somewhat sad and, at the end, very disturbing -- in short, quite a good movie.

February 24, 2003 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment
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This is not one of [Breillat's] better efforts.

May 31, 2002 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | Comment
Houston Chronicle
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Anais is not an object of pity or fun. She simply is. And after seeing Fat Girl, we understand her why and how.

February 14, 2002 Comment
Orlando Sentinel
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A bracing antidote/response to the sleazy teen-oriented sex comedies that are churned out on an assembly line by mainstream Hollywood.

February 1, 2002 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | Comment
Sacramento Bee
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One of the most disturbing films I've ever seen.

April 14, 2010 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | Comment
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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.

October 27, 2004 Full Review Source: Not Coming to a Theater Near You | Comment
Not Coming to a Theater Near You

how you view Breillat's frank attitude toward sexuality-as cynical exploitation or brave exploration-will largely determine your response to her films

October 19, 2004 Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk | Comment
Q Network Film Desk

Fat Girl is noticeably slim in the extras department, but she looks and sounds better than ever.

October 18, 2004 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

A strange, discomfiting and fascinating film about the horrors of adolescence.

February 24, 2003 Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | Comment
L.A. Weekly
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Audience Reviews for Fat Girl (À ma soeur!)

I didn´t know Catherine Breillat´s work, so it was quiet a good surprise. The movie is very realistic and it shows perfectly the sisters relationship (love and hate) and the excitement, fear and all feelings around the first sexual experience. I don´t think the end is supposed to shock. From the first

April 1, 2009
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I have mixed feelings on this storyline, firstly it articulates the feelings of these two very young girls in a realistic sense, I?m sure many ladies out there watching this film will relate to this with nostalgia and can draw an understanding of the circumstances. Secondly though, it was no doubt controversial and an

August 15, 2007
76Majikat

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