Fat Girl
Catherine Breillat / FR, IT, ES, 2001 / 86 min.
Tough-realistic portrait of two teen sisters and their first sexual experiences. Beautiful Elena enjoys the power of her attractiveness whilst chubby Anaïs suffers from her appearance as a victim of fat shaming. Breillat portrays the female body as an object of desire and violence.
Two sisters struggle with their blossoming sexuality and cling to one another in a complex love-hate relationship. Their first experiences with love prove confronting and confusing.
15-year-old Elena is slim, conspicuously attractive and prodigiously seductive; her sister Anaïs, three years her junior, is chubby, unhappy about her appearance and remarkably intelligent. Anaïs watches Elena conquer Italian law student Fernando and observes her sister’s first sex with lust and shame struggling within her.
Screening on 35mm from the Eye collection.
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Details
Director
Catherine Breillat
Production year
2001
Country
FR, IT, ES
Original title
A ma soeur!
Length
86 min.
Language
French, Italian, English
Subtitles
NLD
Format
35mm
Part of
2001
In its film programme 2001 – A Time Capsule, Eye Filmmuseum is marking the 25th anniversary of the year 2001 with a generous helping of nostalgia, screening 25 films that were released in 2001.
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