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Fat Girl

À ma soeur (Fat Girl)

2001

Catherine Breillat

Anaïs Reboux, Roxane Mesquida, Libero De Rienzo, Arsinée Khanjian ...

5.8

703

Drama A Ma Soeur! is a provocative and shocking drama about sibling rivalry, family discord and relationships. Elena is 15, beautiful and flirtatious. Her less confident sister, Anais, is 12, and constantly eats. On holiday, Elena meets a young Italian student who is determined to seduce her. Anais is forced to watch in silence, conspiring with the lovers, but harbouring jealousy and similar desires. Their actions, however, have unforeseen ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"[It] is much more than a perfectly realized vignette about seduction. It is the latest and most powerful dispatch yet from Ms. Breillat"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"This is not a film softened and made innocuous by timid studio executives after 'test screenings.' There is a jolting surprise in discovering that this film has free will (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"Once [Breillat's] sexual politics snap cruelly into focus, 'Fat Girl' becomes not just unsettling, but repellent."	NEU
United States	David Stratton Variety	"Throughout her career, Breillat has probed the problems of heterosexual women with unflinching candor (...) This new film is arguably her most successful exploration of the subject, at least until the savage conclusion"	POS
United States	Stephanie Zacharek Salon	"It's a lean, mean movie, and not a pretty one, but it leaves no question as to Breillat's angular originality as a filmmaker."	POS
United States	Ed Gonzalez Slant	"A startling vision of the prickly crawlspace between innocence and sexual awakening (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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