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Fat Girl (2001)

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Reviews Counted: 82

Fresh: 59

Rotten:23

Average Rating: 6.3/10

Consensus: The controversial Fat Girl is an unflinchingly harsh but powerful look at female adolescence.

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 84 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Oct 10, 2001 Limited

Synopsis: Take two very naive, very young French girls--one a thin 15-year-old, Elena (Roxane Mesquida), and the other her fat 12-year-old sister, Anaïs (Anaïs Reboux). Picture them as lambs. Add a... Take two very naive, very young French girls--one a thin 15-year-old, Elena (Roxane Mesquida), and the other her fat 12-year-old sister, Anaïs (Anaïs Reboux). Picture them as lambs. Add a manipulative older Italian boy, Fernando (Libero De Rienzo). Picture him as the wolf. Witness from close range as the one of the lambs (the thin one) is devoured by the wolf as the other lamb (the fat one) watches in pain but does nothing. The result is FAT GIRL, Catherine Breillat's intense, perplexing, suffocating, grim, terrifying, sickening, dark, plotting depiction of teenage loss of innocence. "Sinister" is what the Italian boy calls what he does to the French girl. "Proof of love" is how the thin girl justifies it. The fat girl, Anaïs, responds by sitting on the beach in her new dress and letting the surf wash up on her as she softly sings sad songs about boredom and death. Later, staring into the mirror, alone together, eye to eye, cheek to cheek, unblinking, the fat and thin sisters calmly share their most hateful feelings for each other. But nothing prepares the viewer for the final blow of the film, which sneaks up with a ferocity that pales the wolf-lamb scenario. Not a pretty picture, Breillat's shockingly realistic work features a fruity color scheme and an optimistic soundtrack that perfects the film's intended confusion of mood and message. [More]

Starring: Anaïs Reboux, Roxane Mesquida, Libero de Rienzo, Arsinee Khanjian

Starring: Anaïs Reboux, Roxane Mesquida, Libero de Rienzo, Arsinee Khanjian, Romain Goupil, Laura Betti, Albert Goldberg, Mark Barriere

Director: Catherine Breillat

Director: Catherine Breillat
Screenwriter: Catherine Breillat
Producer: Jean Francois Lepetit
Studio: Cowboy Pictures

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[Features a] shocking, ambiguous ending.

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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.

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10/27/04
Matt Bailey
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Andrew Rodgers
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03/10/03
Kimberly Jones
Austin Chronicle

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.

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02/24/03
Geoff Pevere
Toronto Star
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A strange, discomfiting and fascinating film about the horrors of adolescence.

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02/24/03
Manohla Dargis
L.A. Weekly

It's compelling, honest, poignant, somewhat sad and, at the end, very disturbing -- in short, quite a good movie.

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02/24/03
Rick Groen
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10/30/02
Matthew Turner
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For women, especially those who have sisters, it should be a must-see.

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10/21/02
Jean Lowerison
San Diego Metropolitan

While Fat Girl is graphic and shocking, it is a more compelling argument than Romance.

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09/19/02
Duane Dudek
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Don't encourage Breillat by watching her self-indulgent, utterly unenjoyable and shallow little exposé.

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09/10/02
Kevin N. Laforest
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08/09/02
Robert Denerstein
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The relationship between the girls is the most complicated in the picture, a Gordian knot of affection, resentment, envy, jealousy and intellectual sparring.

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06/14/02
Lawrence Toppman
Charlotte Observer

Breillat is a skilled director, who has created a troubling film that examines the simple pleasures of the human condition for young people and puts a complex spin on it.

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