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 Italian law 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 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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