Synopsis
Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, Elena, whom she both loves and hates. Elena is fifteen and devilishly beautiful. Neither more futile, nor more stupid than her younger sister, she cannot understand that she is merely an object of desire. And, as such, she can only be taken. Or had. Indeed, this is the subject: a girl's loss of virginity. And, that summer, it opens a door to tragedy.
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Cast
- Anaïs RebouxAnaïs Pingot
- Roxane MesquidaElena Pingot
- Libero De RienzoFernando
- Arsinée KhanjianMother
- Romain GoupilFrancois
- Laura BettiFernando's Mother
- Albert GoldbergKiller
- Odette BarrièreFriend at Residence
- Ann MatthijsseFriend at Residence
- Pierre RenverseauFriend at Residence
Recommendations
- 100
Entertainment Weekly
With the pitiless, devastating Fat Girl, Catherine Breillat puts men and women, boys and girls on notice: When fantasy, hypocrisy, and manipulation mix in a wet, sandy place, you dive into sex at your own risk. - 90
Salon
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. - 90
Village Voice
As fascinating as it is discomfiting and as intelligent as it is primal. From first shot to last, France's foremost bad girl has made an extremely good movie -- and maybe even a great one. - 90
The New York Times
Much more than a perfectly realized vignette about seduction. It is the latest and most powerful dispatch yet from Ms. Breillat, France's most impassioned correspondent covering the war between the sexes. - 88
Chicago Tribune
It's sensuality with a stinger, and Fat Girl is an adolescent sex drama that takes no prisoners. - 80
Los Angeles Times
The film's concluding sequence is bound to polarize audiences. - 75
New York Daily News
Breillat has made an important, even essential work about the exploitation of young women's sexuality, but is not she complicit as well? - 75
Christian Science Monitor
This disturbing drama has many telling moments, but it ends with an out-of-the-blue shock episode that raises more questions than it answers.
