Fat Girl

Fat Girl is a film on the loss of virginity for two sisters. It is summer and the family leaves for holidays by the sea. The warmth of the sunshine and the salt sea water are an ideal setting for passing love affairs. Anais and Elena are sisters. Anais is 12 years old and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. Elena is fifteen with a devilishly beautiful body. Three years apart, there is little difference between them. Both have developed a passionate relationship where love and hate blend into an explosive cocktail. They are accumplices and rivals. “The two sisters share their lives: the rest of the world is practically non-existent and does not interfere in their relationship. I wanted to exploit total cumplicity that can coexist with real ferocity”, says director Catherine Breillat (of Romance). The harmony between the two is to be put to test with the arrival of Fernando, an Italian student, who soon draws the attentions of beautiful Elena. With him (and under the surveillance of Anais), Elena is to lose her virginity. The summer romance, thus, eventually becomes an obstacle, but also a bridge in space that may exist in the relationship between both sisters.

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA