FAT GIRL
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Los Feliz 3 | Introduction by Cindy Flores, Programming Assistant at American Cinematheque
‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair – Year Two’
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- RELEASED IN: 2001
- 86 MINUTES
- DIRECTED BY: CATHERINE BREILLAT
ABOUT THE FILM:
In French with English subtitles
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.
FORMAT: 35mm
DISTRIBUTOR: Janus
COUNTRY: France
