TweIve-year-oId Anais is fat. Her sister, Elena, is a teenage beauty. WhiIe on vacation with their parents, Anais tags aIong with Elena as she expIores the dreary seaside town. EIena meets Fernando, an ltaIian law 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 BreiIat's Fat Girl is a bold dissection of sibling rivalry and female adolescent sexuaIity from one of contemporary cinema's most controversial directors.
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