Fat Girl (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

A new provocation from the director of "Romance"
Fat Girl (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 26 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 3, 2011
  • Originally Released: 2001
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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...[Breillat] proves herself a master of suspense...
Entertainment Weekly
Oct 19, 2001
Rating: 4/5 -- Bold but unrelenting in its depiction of both physical and emotional aggression, Fat Girl will be bracing for those open to its challenges and brutal for those who aren't. Full Review
Toronto Star
Feb 24, 2003
[Features a] shocking, ambiguous ending. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Apr 11, 2008
I first saw Fat Girl upon its original US theatrical release in 2001. I left the theater exhilarated. Three years on, I feel I had been fooled. Full Review
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Oct 27, 2004
A strange, discomfiting and fascinating film about the horrors of adolescence.
L.A. Weekly
Feb 24, 2003
...An absolute stunner of a movie....Breillat draws delicately nuanced performances from Mesquida and Reboux...
Rolling Stone
Nov 8, 2001
...There is a jolting surprise in discovering that this film has free will, and can end as it wants, and that its director can make her point, however brutally...
Chicago Sun-Times
Nov 23, 2001

Product Description:

Take two very naive, very young French girls--one a thin 15-year-old, Elena (Roxane Mesquida), and the other her fat 12-year-old sister, Anaïs (Anaïs Reboux). Picture them as lambs. Add a manipulative older Italian boy, Fernando (Libero De Rienzo). Picture him as the wolf. Witness from close range as the one of the lambs (the thin one) is devoured by the wolf as the other lamb (the fat one) watches in pain but does nothing. The result is FAT GIRL, Catherine Breillat's intense, perplexing, suffocating, grim, terrifying, sickening, dark, plotting depiction of teenage loss of innocence. "Sinister" is what the Italian boy calls what he does to the French girl. "Proof of love" is how the thin girl justifies it. The fat girl, Anaïs, responds by sitting on the beach in her new dress and letting the surf wash up on her as she softly sings sad songs about boredom and death. Later, staring into the mirror, alone together, eye to eye, cheek to cheek, unblinking, the fat and thin sisters calmly share their most hateful feelings for each other. But nothing prepares the viewer for the final blow of the film, which sneaks up with a ferocity that pales the wolf-lamb scenario. Not a pretty picture, Breillat's shockingly realistic work features a fruity color scheme and an optimistic soundtrack that perfects the film's intended confusion of mood and message.

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  • UPC: 715515080217
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