![]() It's a conversation captured with such normality and spontaneity that it makes it more disquieting. They walk shoulder to shoulder through the woods and into the streets but they're of the opposite looks and mindsets.Īnais, an overweight girl, states that first-time sex should be with anybody, while Elena, a beautiful 'Lolita-like' teenager, suggests the generalized importance and pleasures of 'sleeping' around with many. We hear the words 'fat slob' and 'loose morals' hurled at each other devoid of any verbal emotions. The opening scene, after we heard Anais' haunting song and saw her dead set stare, we are introduced to the relational condition of the siblings. The film is chiefly about the relationship between 15-year-old Elena (Roxane Mesquida) and her sister Anais (Anais Reboux in a very daring performance). And just like Gaspar Noe's works, the film has displayed uncommon bravery. And putting an ambiguous, fantasizing, ennui-stricken female character in its center both as an observant and observed does not just complicate the matter, it also puts the film into a critical extremity.Ĭall it depressing, call it exploitative, but by all means, "Fat Girl" delivered what it has intended to, and also puts into exposition and emphasis those that should have been otherwise. But given that a sensible approach to the issues tackled by the film is much more preferable, "Fat Girl" neglected all of these and instead hovered around its characters with detached apathy. I really think that with a more light-handed filmmaker, the theme could have been made and executed as a bittersweet tale of gullible love seen through the eyes of a fertile and curious girl. Yet that's actually what director Catherine Breillat has done in "Fat Girl": A thorough exploration of early sexual awakening, abstract sibling relationships and artificial promiscuity that ultimately leads into disintegration. It's a theme too sensitive and downright naive to really expose in such a raw, disturbing and depressing light. And, that summer, it opens a door to tragedy.ĭolby Stereo, Dolby Digital, Dolby A, Surround, Dolby SRĪdolescent sexuality. Indeed, this is the subject: a girl's loss of virginity. Neither more futile, nor more stupid than her younger sister, she cannot understand that she is merely an object of desire. Elena is fifteen and devilishly beautiful. She watches her older sister, Elena, whom she both loves and hates. Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. ![]()
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