- 2001
- Cowboy Booking International
- 1 h 26 m
SummaryThe story of Anais (Reboux), an overweight 12-year-old, and her beautiful, thin 15-year-old sister, Elena (Mesquida).
Directed By:Catherine Breillat
Written By:Catherine Breillat
Fat Girl
Metascore
Generally Favorable
77
User score
Generally Favorable
7.6
My Score
Where to Watch
Not available in your country?
ExpressVPN
Get 3 Extra months free
$6.67/mth
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable
77
79% Positive
19 Reviews
19 Reviews
17% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
4% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
100
An absolute stunner of a movie.
90
Much more than a perfectly realized vignette about seduction. It is the latest and most powerful dispatch yet from Ms. Breillat, France's most impassioned correspondent covering the war between the sexes.
88
It's sensuality with a stinger, and Fat Girl is an adolescent sex drama that takes no prisoners.
75
Characters in Breillat's movies often make sex their god, lose faith in it, then find their lives hollow and grim. Bergman wouldn't have been so concerned with bodily woes, but he'd have understood.
75
Breillat has made an important, even essential work about the exploitation of young women's sexuality, but is not she complicit as well?
60
A laser-sharp evocation of the tortured ties that bind sisters, who can love and loathe each other simultaneously and inflict lifelong wounds with chilling expertise.
33
Assails with its in-your-face, repulsively compelling (like a train wreck) brutality.
User score
Generally Favorable
7.6
69% Positive
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
31% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
0% Negative
0 Ratings
0 Ratings
Aug 17, 2018
6
It could be said that it's an interesting representation about female adolescence without melodrama ornaments and to a certain extent it works despite the fact that its narrative style never convinced me, however, what was the point of that ending?
Way too ambiguous.
Report
Production Company:
- Flach Film
- CB Films
- Arte France Cinéma
- Immagine e Cinema
- Urania Pictures S.r.l.
- Canal+
- Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
Release Date:Oct 10, 2001
Duration:1 h 26 m
Genres:
Tagline:A new provocation from the director of "Romance"
Awards
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Chicago International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
