Fat Girl (2001) - The Criterion Collection

Synopsis

Twelve-year-old Anaïs is fat. Her sister, Elena, is a teenage beauty. While on vacation with their parents, Anaïs tags along with Elena as she explores the dreary seaside town. Elena meets Fernando, an Italian law student, who seduces her with promises of love, and the ever-watchful Anaïs bears witness to the corruption of her sister’s innocence. Precise and uncompromising, Catherine Breillat’s Fat Girl is a bold dissection of sibling rivalry and female adolescent sexuality from one of contemporary cinema‘s most controversial directors.

Cast

Anaïs	Anaïs Reboux
Elena	Roxane Mesquida
Fernando	Libero de Rienzo
Mother	Arsinée Khanjian
Father	Romain Goupil

Credits

Director	Catherine Breillat
Written and directed by	Catherine Breillat
Producer	Jean-François Lepetit
Co-producer	Conchita Airoldi
Cinematography	Yorgos Arvanitis
Editing	Pascale Chavance
Production Design	François Renaud Labarthe
Sound	Jean Minondo

Disc Features

New, restored high-definition digital transfer with Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 soundtracks
Behind-the-scenes footage from the making of Fat Girl
Two interviews with the director, including a look at the film’s alternate ending
French and U.S. theatrical trailers
New and improved English subtitle translation
Plus: an essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau and an interview with Catherine Breillat from the French film magazine Positif

From the Current

Catherine Breillat on Sisterhood

Oct 23, 2009

Almost a decade ago, Catherine Breillat, one of contemporary cinema’s great provocateurs, gave us Fat Girl (À ma soeur!), a disturbing and graphic look at the pitfalls of adolescent sexuality . . .

Fat Girl: Sisters, Sex, and Sitcom

by Ginette Vincendeau Oct 18, 2004

French auteur cinema has increasingly been exploring themes of sex through scenarios whose explicitness verges on the pornographic. Along with Patrice Chéreau (Intimacy, 2001), Léos Carax (Pola X, 1999), Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi (Baise-moi