Fat Girl Collection

Fat Girl Collection
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Cast

Anaïs Reboux

Anaïs

Roxane Mesquida

Elena

Libero de Rienzo

Fernando

Arsinée Khanjian

Mother

Romain Goupil

Father

Laura Betti

Fernando’s mother

Credits

Director
Catherine Breillat
Screenplay
Catherine Breillat
Producer
Jean-François Lepetit
Coproducer
Conchita Airoldi
Cinematography
Yorgos Arvanitis
Film editor
Pascale Chavance
Production design
François Renaud Labarthe
Sound
Jean Minondo

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Twelve-year-old Anaïs is fat. Her sister, fifteen-year-old Elena, is a beauty. While the girls are on vacation with their parents, Anaïs tags along as Elena explores the dreary seaside town. Elena meets Fernando, an Italian law student; he seduces her with promises of love, and the ever-watchful Anaïs bears witness to the corruption of her sister’s innocence. Fat Girl is not only a portrayal of female adolescent sexuality and the complicated bond between siblings but also a shocking assertion by the always controversial Catherine Breillat that violent oppression exists at the core of male-female relations.
French auteur cinema has increasingly been exploring themes of sex through scenarios whose explicitness verges on the pornographic.
A boy-meets-girl seduction accelerates at absurd speed in Catherine Breillat’s controversial coming-of-age film, transporting us to a realm beyond naturalism.
Ruben Östlund is the director of the acclaimed films Force Majeure and The Square, the latter of which won the Palme d’Or at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.
Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein are New York City–based filmmakers.
Chloë Sevigny took a step behind the camera with her directorial debut, Kitty, an adaptation of a Paul Bowles story about a shy young girl who finds herself transforming into a cat.
Canadian-born director Alison Maclean’s films include Jesus’ Son (1999) and the newly released The Rehearsal, an official selection of Toronto International Film Festival and New York Film Festival.
Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan has directed fourteen features.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the musical number, see Fat Girl (composition) .

Fabrice Nguyen Thai
Jean-Paul Jamot

Flach Film
CB Films
Arte France Cinéma
Immagine & Cinema
Urania Pictures

Rezo Films (France)
Istituto Luce (Italy)

10 February 2001 ( 2001-02-10 ) ( Berlin )
7 March 2001 ( 2001-03-07 ) (France)
15 June 2001 ( 2001-06-15 ) (Italy)

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^ "Fat Girl Reviews" . Metacritic . Retrieved 13 August 2021 .

^ Schwarzbaum, Lisa (17 March 2020). "Fat Girl" . Entertainment Weekly .

^ Gonzalez, Ed (26 September 2001). "Review: Fat Girl " . Slant Magazine .

^ Meyer, Carla (30 November 2001). "A sisterhood both powerful and bitter / 'Fat Girl' an extraordinary inquiry into sex" . San Francisco Chronicle . Retrieved 13 August 2021 .

^ Holden, Stephen . "Film Festival Review; Adolescent Fantasies, Rough Real Life". The New York Times . p. 3.

^ Ebert, Roger (23 November 2001). "Fat Girl" . Chicago Sun-Times . Retrieved 13 August 2021 .

^ Stratton, David (15 February 2001). "Fat Girl" . Variety .

^ Smith, Neil (4 December 2001). "A Ma Soeur! (2001)" . BBC . Retrieved 13 August 2021 .

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^ Wheeler Winston Dixon , 2003, Wallflower Press, London and New York, Visions of the Apocalypse: Spectacles of Destruction in American Cinema , Retrieved 28 November 2014, ISBN 1-903364-74-4 (paperback) ISBN 1-903364-38-8 (hardcover), see page 112, lines 5-10.

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Films directed by Catherine Breillat

A Real Young Girl (1976)
36 Fillette (1988)
Romance (1999)
Fat Girl (2001)
Brief Crossing (2001)
Sex Is Comedy (2002)
Anatomy of Hell (2004)
The Last Mistress (2007)
Bluebeard (2009)
La belle endormie (2010)
Abuse of Weakness (2013)

Fat Girl ( French : À ma sœur! , lit. 'To My Sister!') is a 2001 drama film written and directed by Catherine Breillat , and starring Anaïs Reboux and Roxane Mesquida . It was released in certain English-speaking countries under the alternative titles For My Sister and Story of a Whale . [2] The film's plot follows two young sisters as they deal with coming-of-age, sibling rivalry, and desire while on vacation with their family.

Anaïs and her older sister, Elena, are vacationing with their parents on the French seaside. Bored of staying in their vacation home, the two walk into town while discussing relationships and their virginities. Although the conventionally attractive Elena has been promiscuous, she is saving actual intercourse for someone who loves her, while overweight Anaïs thinks it is better to lose one's virginity to a "nobody" just to get it over with.

They meet an Italian law student, Fernando, at a cafe. Later, Fernando sneaks into the girls' bedroom for a liaison with Elena. Anaïs is awake and watches their entire interaction. After a conversation about Fernando's previous relationships with other women, Elena consents to have sex with him but backs out at the last minute. Frustrated, Fernando pressures her through various means, including threatening to sleep with some other woman just to alleviate himself. Finally, Elena is coerced into anal sex as a "proof of love," although it is obviously a painful experience for her.

In the morning, Fernando asks for oral sex from Elena before he leaves, but Anaïs has had enough and tells them to let her sleep in peace. The next day, the girls and Fernando go to the beach. Anaïs sits in the ocean in her new dress and sings to herself while Elena and Fernando go off alone together. Later, as the girls are reminiscing about their childhood together back at the house, Elena reveals Fernando gave her a ring while at the beach. Anaïs openly expresses her suspicions about Fernando's intentions. That night, Elena gives up her virginity to Fernando as Anaïs silently cries on the other side of the room.

Later, Fernando's mother arrives at the vacation house, asking for the ring Fernando gave to Elena back, as it belongs to her and is one of a collection of pieces of jewelry from past lovers that she keeps. On discovering Elena and Fernando's relationship, their mother angrily decides to drive back from Les Mathes to their home in Paris . On the way back, she becomes tired and decides to sleep at a rest stop, where a man smashes the windshield of their car with an axe, kills Elena, and strangles their mother while ripping her clothes. When Anaïs gets out of the car and starts backing away, he takes Anaïs into the woods and rapes her. When the police arrive the next morning, Anaïs, recalling her conversation with Elena about virginity, insists he did not rape her.

Breillat's experience during principal photography inspired her 2002 film Sex Is Comedy , which revolves around shooting a sex scene from the film. Mesquida reprised the scene for the later film. Principal photography took place during in Les Mathes , France [3] from late 1999 to early 2000. [4]

Catherine Breillat revealed she had a big concern about censorship because in the movie you could see Anaïs's breasts. "I actually wanted her not to have breasts, but her body changed between casting and the end of shooting. It's funny that, if she had been flat-chested, it wouldn't have been an issue", director said. [5]

The film received generally positive reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes reports an approval rating of 73% based on 86 reviews, with an average rating of 6.4/10. The site's consensus reads: "The controversial Fat Girl is an unflinchingly harsh but powerful look at female adolescence." [6] On Metacritic , the film has a weighted average score of 77 out of 100 based on 24 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [7]

Fat Girl got an "A" from Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly [8] and was called a "startling vision of the prickly crawlspace between innocence and sexual awakening" by Ed Gonzalez of Slant Magazine . [9] Carla Meyer of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote the film "[e]xposes the less sexy things that lust can awaken, like viciousness, deceit and amoral longing". [10]

Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote "Reboux's extraordinary performance conveys Anaïs's mixture of precocious insight, animal canniness and vulnerability so powerfully that it ranks among the richest screen portrayals of a child ever filmed". [11] In a review for Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert wrote "There is a jolting surprise in discovering that this film has free will, and can end as it wants, and that its director can make her point, however brutally". [12]

David Stratton of Variety praised the cinematography by Yorgos Arvanitis , calling the film "beautifully photographed and framed". [13] Neil Smith of BBC said that "Breillat has fashioned another characteristically raw and honest portrait of sexual relations". [14]

Fat Girl was banned in Ontario by the Ontario Film Review Board in late 2001 due to objections regarding the frank representation of teenage sexuality. [15] American film critic Wheeler Winston Dixon noted that the film was not only banned in Ontario, but was "severely restricted to adult audiences throughout the world". Dixon described the film as a "harrowing tale of a 13-year-old girl's coming of age as her 15-year-old sister embarks on a series of sexual relationships", featuring "explicit sexual scenes" in a "brutal narrative structure." [16] The ban in Canada was eventually overturned and the film played in several theatres in 2003. [17]

In 2001, the film won the Manfred Salzgeber Award at the 51st Berlin International Film Festival [18] and the France Culture Award at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival . [19]

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