Fat Girl

Catherine Breillat

 
Fat Girl Criterion DVD

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  • France
  • 2001
  • 86 minutes
  • Color
  • 1.85:1
  • French

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.

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Cast

AnaïsAnaïs Reboux
ElenaRoxane Mesquida
FernandoLibero de Rienzo
MotherArsinée Khanjian
FatherRomain Goupil

Credits

DirectorCatherine Breillat
Written and directed byCatherine Breillat
ProducerJean-François Lepetit
Co-producerConchita Airoldi
CinematographyYorgos Arvanitis
EditingPascale Chavance
Production designFrançois Renaud Labarthe
SoundJean 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

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Film Essays

Fat Girl: Sisters, Sex, and Sitcom

By Ginette VincendeauOctober 18, 2004

French auteur cinema has increasingly been exploring themes of sex through scenarios whose explicitness verges on the pornographic. Along with Patrice Chéreau Read more »

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