TweIve-year-oId Anais is fat. Her sister, Elena, is a teenage beauty. While on vacation with their parents, Anais tags along with EIena as she explores the dreary seaside town. Elena meets Fernando, an Italian Iaw student, who seduces her with promises of Iove, and the ever-watchful Anais bears witness to the corruption of her sister's innocence. Precise and uncompromising, Catherine Breilat's Fat Girl is a boId dissection of sibling rivaIry and female adolescent sexuaIity from one of contemporary cinema's most controversiaI directors.
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