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.
The rest stop scene was completely unexpected.
Yeah you are rest stop scene was very unexpected
this is a really good movie the rest stop scene was very surprising
What is that thing she keeps eating? A long white taffy?
it”s a sweet cotton candy we have down here, like marshmellows
Movie was boring until the rest stop scene.
What a waste of time, awfully boring and slow except last 5 minutes. Total garbage
if you don’t want too ….. it’s no even ambiguous; it’s nothing . . . i.e. I discern no digestible statement/meaning.
does anyone know the song they were singing in the beginning and then in the pool?
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…
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!
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…