Fat Girl

Name: Fat Girl
Genre: Drama
Released: October 10, 2001
Duration: 86 min
Rating: 77
Cast: Anaïs Reboux, Roxane Mesquida

2001

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FAT GIRL

Movie Details & Credits

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Cowboy Booking International | Release Date: October 10, 2001

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).

Director: Catherine Breillat

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 86 min

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50	#50 Best Movie of 2001
36	#36 Most Shared Movie of 2001

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Entertainment Weekly - Lisa Schwarzbaum

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. Read full review

Wall Street Journal - Joe Morgenstern

Proves to be a remarkably lean and incisive film about the fateful power of sexuality.

Village Voice - J. Hoberman

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. Read full review

Baltimore Sun - Michael Sragow

Like "Anais," the only surprises Breillat has in store for us are bad ones. In the willfully perverse final act, she delivers a sadistic blow to the audience -- with a sledgehammer. Read full review

Christian Science Monitor - David Sterritt

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. Read full review

New York Post - Jonathan Foreman

So daring and unsparing in its depiction of the psyche and experience of adolescent girls that it's hard to imagine an audience that wouldn't find it deeply provocative despite a slow pace. Read full review

Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Paula Nechak

Assails with its in-your-face, repulsively compelling (like a train wreck) brutality. Read full review

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DaveS

Jan 3, 2006

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.

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JLuis_001

Aug 17, 2018

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.

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