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Generally favorable reviews - based on 24 Critics What's this?

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 16 Ratings

  • Starring: Anaïs Reboux, Roxane Mesquida
  • Summary: The story of Anais (Reboux), an overweight 12-year-old, and her beautiful, thin 15-year-old sister, Elena (Mesquida).
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 24
  2. Negative: 1 out of 24
  1. 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.
  2. The film's concluding sequence is bound to polarize audiences.
  3. 60
    A laser-sharp evocation of the tortured ties that bind sisters, who can love and loathe each other simultaneously and inflict lifelong wounds with chilling expertise.
  4. Assails with its in-your-face, repulsively compelling (like a train wreck) brutality.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 9
  2. Negative: 3 out of 9
  1. DaveS
    7
    One of the most disturbing endings in any film I've seen. I have to commend the director on being uncompromising, but it will no doubt bother many. Expand

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