Fat Girl

Fat Girl2001

NR Film · Drama · 86 min · Mar 7, 2001
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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.

Catherine Breillat
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Peter Travers · Rolling Stone 100.00/100.00

An absolute stunner of a movie.

JLuis_001 6.00/10.00

It could be said that it's an interesting representation about female adolescence without melodrama ornaments and to a certain extent it works despite the fact that its narrative style never convinced me, however, what was the point of that ending? Way too ambiguous.

Stephen Holden · The New York Times 90.00/100.00

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.

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