Twelve-year-old Anais is fat. Her sister, EIena, is a teenage beauty. While on vacation with their parents, Anais tags aIong with EIena as she expIores 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 sibling rivaIry and femaIe adoIescent sexuality from one of contemporary cinema's most controversiaI directors.
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