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'{{For|the musical number|Fat Girl (composition)}} {{short description|2001 film by Catherine Breillat}} {{Multiple issues| {{more footnotes|date=March 2013}} {{Lead too short|date=August 2014}} }} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox film | name = Fat Girl | image = Fat Girl poster.jpg | caption = Theatrical release poster | native_name = {{Infobox name module|fr|À ma sœur!}} | director = [[Catherine Breillat]] | producer = Jean-François Lepetit | writer = Catherine Breillat | starring = {{Plainlist| * Anaïs Reboux * [[Roxane Mesquida]] * [[Libero De Rienzo]] * [[Arsinée Khanjian]] * [[Romain Goupil]] * [[Laura Betti]] }} | music = {{Plainlist| * Fabrice Nguyen Thai * Jean-Paul Jamot }} | cinematography = [[Giorgos Arvanitis|Yorgos Arvanitis]] | editing = Pascale Chavance | studio = {{Plainlist| * Flach Film * CB Films * [[Arte|Arte France Cinéma]] * Immagine & Cinema * Urania Pictures }} | distributor = {{Plainlist| * Rezo Films (France) * [[Istituto Luce]] (Italy) }} | released = {{Film date|2001|2|10|[[51st Berlin International Film Festival|Berlin]]|2001|3|7|France|2001|6|15|Italy|df=y}} | runtime = 86 minutes | country = {{Plainlist| * France * Italy }} | language = {{Plainlist| * French * Italian * English }} | budget = | gross = $765,705<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=fatgirl.htm|title=Fat Girl (2001)|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=9 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151029125155/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=fatgirl.htm|archive-date=29 October 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> }} '''''Fat Girl''''' ({{lang-fr|'''À ma sœur!'''|lit=To My Sister!}}) is a 2001 [[Drama (film and television)|drama]] film written and directed by [[Catherine Breillat]], and starring Anaïs Reboux and [[Roxane Mesquida]]. It was released in certain [[English-speaking countries]] under the alternative titles '''''For My Sister''''' and '''''Story of a Whale'''''. ==Plot== Anaïs and her older sister, Elena, are vacationing with their parents on the French seaside. Bored of staying in their vacation home, the two walk into town while discussing relationships and their virginities. Although the conventionally attractive Elena has been promiscuous, she is saving actual intercourse for someone who loves her, while overweight Anaïs thinks it is better to lose one's virginity to a "nobody" just to get it over with. They meet an Italian law student, Fernando, at a cafe. Later, Fernando sneaks into the girls' bedroom for a liaison with Elena. Anaïs is awake and watches their entire interaction. After a conversation about Fernando's previous relationships with other women, Elena consents to have sex with him but backs out at the last minute. Frustrated, Fernando pressures her through various means, including threatening to sleep with some other woman just to alleviate himself. Finally, Elena is coerced into anal sex as a "proof of love," although it is obviously a painful experience for her. In the morning, Fernando asks for oral sex from Elena before he leaves, but Anaïs has had enough and tells them to let her sleep in peace. The next day, the girls and Fernando go to the beach. Anaïs sits in the ocean in her new dress and sings to herself while Elena and Fernando go off alone together. Later, as the girls are reminiscing about their childhood together back at the house, Elena reveals Fernando gave her a ring while at the beach. Anaïs openly expresses her suspicions about Fernando's intentions. That night, Elena gives up her virginity to Fernando as Anaïs silently cries on the other side of the room. Later, Fernando's mother arrives at the vacation house, asking for the ring Fernando gave to Elena back, as it belongs to her and is one of a collection of pieces of jewelry from past lovers that she keeps. On discovering Elena and Fernando's relationship, their mother angrily decides to drive back to Paris. On the way back, she becomes tired and decides to sleep at a rest stop, where a man smashes the windshield of their car with an axe, kills Elena, and strangles their mother while ripping her clothes. When Anaïs gets out of the car and starts backing away, he takes Anaïs into the woods and rapes her. When the police arrive the next morning, Anaïs, recalling her conversation with Elena about virginity, insists he did not rape her. ==Cast== * Anaïs Reboux as Anaïs Pingot * [[Roxane Mesquida]] as Elena Pingot * [[Libero De Rienzo]] as Fernando * [[Arsinée Khanjian]] as Mrs. Pingot * [[Romain Goupil]] as François Pingot * [[Laura Betti]] as Fernando's mother * Albert Goldberg as the killer ==Production== Breillat's experience during principal photography inspired her 2002 film ''[[Sex Is Comedy]]'', which revolves around shooting a sex scene from the film. Mesquida reprised the scene for the later film. ==Release== ===Critical reception=== The film received generally positive reviews from critics. [[Rotten Tomatoes]] reports an approval rating of 73% based on 86 reviews, with an average rating of 6.4/10. The site's consensus reads: "The controversial ''Fat Girl'' is an unflinchingly harsh but powerful look at female adolescence."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fat_girl|title=Fat Girl (2001)|work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date=9 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171127034812/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fat_girl/|archive-date=27 November 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a weighted average score of 77 out of 100, based on 24 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/fat-girl|title=Fat Girl Reviews|publisher=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=9 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421125155/http://www.metacritic.com/movie/fat-girl|archive-date=21 April 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> ===Controversy=== ''Fat Girl'' was banned in Ontario by the [[Ontario Film Review Board]] in late 2001 due to objections regarding the frank representation of teenage sexuality. American film critic [[Wheeler Winston Dixon]] noted that the film was not only banned in Ontario, but was "severely restricted to adult audiences throughout the world". Dixon described the film as a "harrowing tale of a 13-year-old girl's coming of age as her 15-year-old sister embarks on a series of sexual relationships", featuring "explicit sexual scenes" in a "brutal narrative structure."<ref name=twsWWDixon>[[Wheeler Winston Dixon]], 2003, Wallflower Press, London and New York, ''Visions of the Apocalypse: Spectacles of Destruction in American Cinema'', Retrieved 28 November 2014, {{ISBN|1-903364-74-4}} (paperback) {{ISBN|1-903364-38-8}} (hardcover), see page 112, lines 5-10</ref> The ban in Canada was eventually overturned and the film played in several theatres in 2003.<ref>{{cite web|title=Banned Films in UK / Canada / United States|url=http://www.rowthree.com/2011/06/08/banned-films-in-uk-canada-united-states/|website=rowthree.com|access-date=6 July 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Fat Girl (2001) Trivia|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243255/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv|website=imdb.com|access-date=6 July 2020}}</ref> ===Accolades=== In 2001, the film won the Manfred Salzgeber Award at the [[51st Berlin International Film Festival]] and the France Culture Award at the [[2001 Cannes Film Festival]].{{fact|date=December 2020}} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * {{IMDb title|0243255}} * {{AllMovie title|239364}} * {{Rotten Tomatoes|fat_girl}} * [https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/495-fat-girl-sisters-sex-and-sitcom ''Fat Girl: Sisters, Sex, and Sitcom''] an essay by [[Ginette Vincendeau]] at the [[Criterion Collection]] * [http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1846-i-fat-girl-about-the-title ''Fat Girl: About the Title''] an essay by Catherine Breillat at the [[Criterion Collection]] {{Catherine Breillat}} {{Golden Hugo}} [[Category:2001 films]] [[Category:2001 drama films]] [[Category:2000s coming-of-age drama films]] [[Category:English-language films]] [[Category:English-language French films]] [[Category:Films about rape]] [[Category:Films about sexual repression]] [[Category:Films about virginity]] [[Category:Films directed by Catherine Breillat]] [[Category:Films set in France]] [[Category:Films shot in France]] [[Category:French coming-of-age drama films]] [[Category:French films]] [[Category:French-language films]] [[Category:Italian coming-of-age drama films]] [[Category:Italian films]] [[Category:Italian-language films]] [[Category:Obscenity controversies in film]]'