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- 2023
- 1 h 36 m
- 2023
- 1 h 36 m
Summary The rise of Aubrey Gordon, from anonymous blogger to best selling author. Her aim? A paradigm shift in the way that we view fatness. A film about fat, family, the complexities of change and the deep, messy feelings we hold about our bodies
Directed By: Jeanie Finlay
Written By: Jeanie Finlay
- 2023
- 1 h 36 m
- 2023
- 1 h 36 m
Your Fat Friend
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Summary The rise of Aubrey Gordon, from anonymous blogger to best selling author. Her aim? A paradigm shift in the way that we view fatness. A film about fat, family, the complexities of change and the deep, messy feelings we hold about our bodies
Directed By: Jeanie Finlay
Written By: Jeanie Finlay
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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83% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
74
83% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
17% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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A simple but effective study of a vital activist voice, this documentary is a powerful force for change.
It helps that Gordon is a dream of a subject: funny, frank and eminently likable, she challenges preconceptions and prejudices about fatness with wit and grace.
It’s a realistic, sensitive but never cloying call for kindness and empathy – something that shouldn’t feel novel in this day and age, but sadly does – and encourages viewers to reconsider how they view fatness, and in turn, fat bodies.
It would have been great to have seen even more myth-busting around weight and health in this doc (presumably that’s covered in her book ‘What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat’), but Gordon is a funny and frank subject: a tour of her vintage diet book collection is a treat.
This engaging, eye-opening documentary follows Gordon over six years, as a book deal forces her to give up her anonymity and she further explores her own relationships with food, her family and society at large.
Your Fat Friend succeeds in offering a nuanced portrayal of a writer and the views that made her beloved. But it’s hard to shake the feeling that the film actively infantilizes the very demographic that it wants to elevate.
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Production Company
Glimmer Films
Release Date Dec 8, 2023
Duration 1 h 36 m
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Website
http://www.yrfatfriendfilm.com/
Awards
Sheffield International Documentary Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Cleveland International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
