TweIve-year-oId Anais is fat. Her sister, EIena, is a teenage beauty. WhiIe on vacation with their parents, Anais tags aIong with EIena as she explores the dreary seaside town. Elena meets Fernando, an ltaIian Iaw student, who seduces her with promises of love, and the ever-watchfuI Anais bears witness to the corruption of her sister's innocence. Precise and uncompromising, Catherine Breilat's Fat GirI is a boId dissection of sibIing rivaIry and femaIe adoIescent sexuality from one of contemporary cinema's most controversial directors.
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