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BLEAK WEEK: FAT GIRL
2001
Director
Catherine Breillat
Starring
Anaïs Reboux
Roxane Mesquida
Libero De Rienzo
Runtime
86 minutes
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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.
“Catherine Breillat’s FAT GIRL is a startling vision of the prickly crawlspace between innocence and sexual awakening. The film’s notions of perseverance are at once sensible and unnerving, so that love becomes indistinguishable from rape. The film’s brilliance lies in its deceptive simplicity—its dawdling sketch of virtue on the brink of collapse.” - Ed Gonzalez, Slant
“Catherine Breillat’s FAT GIRL is a startling vision of the prickly crawlspace between innocence and sexual awakening. The film’s notions of perseverance are at once sensible and unnerving, so that love becomes indistinguishable from rape. The film’s brilliance lies in its deceptive simplicity—its dawdling sketch of virtue on the brink of collapse.” - Ed Gonzalez, Slant