Fat Girl (2001)
AKA: À Ma Soeur!; For My Sister
Directed by: Catherine Breillat
Starring: Anais Reboux (Anais), Roxane Mesquida (Elena), Libero De Rienzo (Fernando), Arsinee Khanjian (Mother)
Country: France, European Cinema
Language: French (English Subtitles)
Runtime: 01:56:49
Genres: Obesity, Siblings-Family, Rape-Women, Teen-Oriented, Voyeur
Plot – Spoilers:
Sisters Anais and Elena are vacationing in France with their parents. Anais is the younger fat one who is bullied by the older and petite Elena. The parents are cut off from the girls and caught up in their own mindless stuff and so the girls roam around the beach town, often bickering with each other. Elena is conscious of her figure and genuinely repulsed by excess food, especially when she sees it being stuffed down her little sister’s mouth.
Rejection at home and outside has helped Anais understand human nature well beyond her years and she often has opinions on Elena’s behaviour especially around men. There are however honest moments of bonding between the sisters and they feel a connection despite their glaring external differences.
One boring afternoon, the girls meet a young Italian law student Fernando at a cafe and he sets his sights on Elena’s virginity…
Fat Girl has extended scenes of pre-coital chatter and manipulation that are so well-acted and naturally portrayed, we almost feel like voyeurs peeping into a bedroom.
Random Thoughts on the Ending
Anais gets what she wanted – losing her virginity to an unknown man. Perhaps she refuses to accuse him of rape for this reason. It is also possible that she feels a bit of relief that he took down the two people in the world she had a hate-love equation with.
Damn, elena is so hot. I so love the movie, but makes me sad cos elena died
bro the french cinema never fails to make the most fucked up shit HAHAHAAHAHAHAN this movie didn’t make sense to me but it didn’t bore me so yeah
Fred Fat didn’t comment on this. HMMMMMM!?!?
The fat girl was 13 or 14 when this film was made. They show her tits and her getting raped. How did they get away with this?
I love French Cinema. they always try to cover up filth as art …. but hey that’s why we came to this site right? ha ha
yes pretty amazing.
She is fat and ugly and autistic can’t masturbate sorry
simple story but a good one, 7/10.
Surprised there’s no pearl-clutchers screaming about how they saw a teenagers tits for half a second
I did not know why this movie was in this web site it was a fairly normal movie nice young naked girl who fell victim to a fast talking dude …a crazy young sister ..just a typical French movie ..then the last 5 mins the young sister get fucked and enjoys it ..Mom and sister gets killed all fucked up the end is all fucked …I should have known its from France ..good movie to watch
I watched this on an autopilot, a bit absent-minded….and when it ended, I said to myself, “ok, the end, bye bye”… it’s the kind of movie that doesn’t leave any impression on the mind…but grateful for the experience to have watched it. *scratches head*
The ending tho is shocking, it’s like she got what she wanted and yet….it leaves with a thousand questions.
This one was strange. I enjoyed it, but not sure if I’d watch it again. Agree the rest stop scene was so left field – I almost wondered if was Anais’s weird fat girl fantasy coming true.
Guys they made a movie about your mom lol
Very sad and relatable, I couldn’t help but to cry when Anaïs did. Shocking ending I loved it.
The rest stop, I was already wondering but..wow. Also Fernando can go and die.
This was much better than anticipated! The rest stop scene was absolutely unexpected, even with the semi-spoilers in the comments mentioning as much. Talk about 0 to 100…
I’m speechless to find this gem here i watched when i was a kid, i’ve been looking for this everywhere for years!
Thank you Admin You’re amazing!
BAM! Where in the hell did that come from?! I love ’em when they’re like that! Cool movie.
As always, thank you for all you do, EUM dudes…. and dudettes, I don’t know…
does anyone know the song they were singing in the beginning and then in the pool?
if you don’t want too ….. it’s no even ambiguous; it’s nothing . . . i.e. I discern no digestible statement/meaning.
What a waste of time, awfully boring and slow except last 5 minutes. Total garbage
Movie was boring until the rest stop scene.
What is that thing she keeps eating? A long white taffy?
it”s a sweet cotton candy we have down here, like marshmellows
this is a really good movie the rest stop scene was very surprising
The rest stop scene was completely unexpected.
Yeah you are rest stop scene was very unexpected