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Criterion Collection: Fat Girl [DVD] [2001] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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Catherine Breillat (Director) Format: DVD
3.7 out of 5 stars 25 customer reviews
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  • Directors: Catherine Breillat
  • Language: French
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: Criterion
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0002V7O10
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4.0 out of 5 starsBreilliat's best film, uncut
By Pen on 31 July 2010
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
Fat Girl (aka A Ma Soeur!) is French director Catherine Breilliat's caustic version of a teen film. It's about two young teenage sisters - Elena, who is pretty and sexy, and Anais, who is fat and ignored. On holiday, Elena is seduced by a handsome young Italian scoundrel. It's a modern classic.

The key scene in Fat Girl take place after dark in the girl's bedroom. The Italian suitor gets in, and has sex with Elena, while Anais is forced to listen in the next bed. This scene plays out in real time, and mercilessly reveals the craven behaviour of supposedly 'nice' young men who are desperate to have sex. This is the flip side of American Pie and its ilk, and is uncomfortable viewing, especially as Breilliat makes us share Anais's revulsion at it all.

The next day, the girls and their mother return home, but en route there is a very violent incident awaiting them. It may be Anais's embittered fantasy, it may not, but its inclusion is crucial to the good boy/bad boy debate the film is having. This scene is censor cut in the UK version, and there is an apology for this inside the box. By contrast, the US Criterion version is uncut, has superior picture quality, and is well worh picking up.
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4.0 out of 5 starsEnigmatic movie from a director of rare quality
By omnigadrum on 29 May 2005
Format: DVD
Catherine Breillat has courted controversy since she wrote her first novel at 17. She would eventually make the transition from novelist to screenwriter to film director, but there are recurring themes which crop up in her various roles. Prominent amongst these are her exploration of the sexuality of women and teenage fascination with (and angst about) virginity - both of which are central to "À Ma Soeur".
The film concerns two sisters - the slim, pretty 15 year old, the overweight, marginalised 12 year old - and their relationship with one another and with their own sexuality and virginity. The girls have been taken on a family holiday but are abandoned to one another's company. Their parents seem to avoid contact with them, other than at meal times. Father, especially, is too busy with concerns about his work to be anything other than a token, family figurehead.
Elena is expected to take responsibility for the younger Anaïs. They are of an age to grow apart, and when Elena strikes up a conversation with an Italian law student, the scene is set for the fragmentation of the sisters' relationship. Anaïs becomes effectively invisible as the experienced young man seduces Elena.
Seduction, and loss of virginity, will take place in the girls' bedroom while Anaïs is supposedly asleep. But Anaïs watches as her sister is coaxed and coerced with words of love. Breillat frequently presents the contrasting images of teenage sexuality - on the one hand, precocious, dangerous, on the other, abusive, self-destructive. Teenage (or adult) self-image, self-confidence, and self-respect are often intimately bound up in how you imagine yourself to be perceived sexually by others ... are you desirable, or spurned.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsSibling rivalry
By A Customer on 5 Feb. 2004
Format: VHS Tape
It appears that there is no defined direction to this supposedly innocent film, which from the very beginning focuses simply on two french sisters, the elder pretty and slim etc, the youngest being the plump ugly duckling. It documents the fairly typical family on their summer holiday in France, the squabbling between the two girls and their over-worked, career obsessed father and mother; who is susceptible to panic attacks. The elder sister meets an older Italian boy, who of course is only after one thing and succeeds in leading her astray, the ugly duckling has to endure their sexual antics-whilst pretending to sleep. The film seems to dwindle along, and at points seems like it may have been aimed at young teenagers.
That is until the end... Where the mother and her two daughters are left to drive home without their father, who returns to work. The three of them end up on the motorway, the panic stricken mother driving fairly recklessly in a very long, tense and at times wince inducing scene. I wont spoil the end, but I can reassure you it will not be what you expect! Many people find the ending too grotesque, but I think it is genius-in its simplicity-considering that this is the type of film not required to shock you, it certainly does!
Its one of many of my favourite french films, and I would recommend it to anyone with a vaguely dark side.
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3.0 out of 5 stars"Don't believe me if you don't want to".
By @GeekZilla9000 TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on 12 Jan. 2010
Format: DVD
Elena is a beautiful young woman who is keen to remind her younger sister Anais that she is fat and unlikely to ever get a man whereas she attracts attention wherever she goes. Proving the point - within the first five minutes of the film Elena has enticed a man into her life and she begins to play mindgames with him, little teases to test him and get information from but above all to get him to focus entirely on her and tell her that he loves her. He is far more manipulative and every word he utter is carefully chosen to get what he wants, he even manages to make her feel guilty when he claims that he may be forced to get another girl if she doesn't give him the satisfaction he desires.

Elena's new love creates more friction between between the two sisters as Anais' personal philosophy on the physical aspect of young love is in direct conflict with Elena's. Nobody seems happy in the film, the only emotions which are portrayed are either faked or misplaced, and there are glimpses of the unemotional interactions between their parents.

The relationship between the two sisters becomes more strained and there's a a strangely compelling scene in the film as the two rest their heads against each other and hold hands as they tell how much they despise each other, they conclude that "We hate each other because we're raised as rivals". Anais recalls the exact moment in their past when their once close relationship snapped and the two turned on each other.
The scene is told with good grace and humour, but it hints at a deep psychological pain which unites the 'chalk and cheese' pair.

I'd heard that there was a shocking ending to the film, and I was pretty tensed up when I watched and awaited it.Read more ›
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2.0 out of 5 starsInterfering cuts

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Catherine Breillat's "A Ma Soeur" is a somewhat chilly morality tale enlivened by the remarkable and entirely convincing acting of the two leads, Roxane Mesquida and, especially,... Read more

Published on 10 April 2010 by Hywel James
3.0 out of 5 starsOne of the better films of this genre

Title was probably not the best in the world (Rendered into English as "Fat girl" but the film is certainly not as bad as the title may suggest. Read more

Published on 14 July 2008 by Gogol
3.0 out of 5 starsGreat idea, but could've been much better

After watching A Ma Soeur, I was left feeling very disappointed.
The film follows 12 year old Anais & her 15 year old sister Elena. Read more

Published on 12 Mar. 2008 by Claire Frances
2.0 out of 5 starsDemoralising and saddening story of teenage fantasy

I don't hold grudge against graphic and disturbing 'arts' and personally with no high moral standard, I find the movie distasteful as it depiction of two sisters holiday experience... Read more

Published on 23 Jan. 2008 by Pan Tsang
3.0 out of 5 starsBBFC Vandalism of great cinema continues...

Up until watching a ma souer the work of Catherine Breillat has never truly delivered what I'd hoped it would. Read more

Published on 12 Jan. 2007 by Dedalus
5.0 out of 5 starsAnother Triumph for Good French Cinema

This is a terrific film and definitely hits my top 5.
Outstanding performances from Anais Reboux and Roxane Mesquida, and Catherine Breillat has captured the emotions of... Read more

Published on 23 Feb. 2006
4.0 out of 5 starsThe Pretty Things...

"A Ma Soeur" is an absorbing "coming of age" film about two very different teenage sisters on holiday with their parents, one of whom (Elena)is keen on being deflowered by an... Read more

Published on 21 Nov. 2005 by L. Davidson
4.0 out of 5 starsgreat film... but what about this ending?

I won't bother reviewing this film in its entirety, as others have done it far more eloquently than I can. Read more

Published on 25 April 2005

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