Fatso
Anne Bancroft / US, 1980 / 93 min.
She was Oscar-nominated for her role as Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate (1967). Some ten years later, Anne Bancroft made her surprising directorial feature debut with Fatso, which she also wrote. Humour, romance and drama intertwine as an obese man (Dom DeLuise) looks for love.
Dominick DiNapoli (Dom DeLuise) loves food. Lots and lots of food; tasty food, the kind that’s not necessarily good for you. Like his beloved cousin Sal, Dominick expands to proportions we’d describe as rather obese today.
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Director
Anne Bancroft
Production year
1980
Country
US
Original title
Fatso
Length
93 min.
Language
English, Italian
Subtitles
NONE
Format
DCP
Part of
Liberating Hollywood
In its Liberating Hollywood programme, Eye is screening works by female directors working in the US in the 1970s. Pioneers of the second-wave feminist era, their work has seldom or never been screened in the Netherlands. Highlights of the programme are Wanda (Barbara Loden) and Girlfriends (Claudia Weill), the inspiration for Lena Dunham’s series Girls.
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