Review of Fat Girl (2001) by Steven C — 08 Feb 2012

I didn´t know Catherine Breillat´s work, so it was quiet a good surprise. The movie is very realistic and it shows perfectly the sisters relationship (love and hate) and the excitement, fear and all feelings around the first sexual experience.

I don´t think the end is supposed to shock. From the first scene we know that something is going to happen, even tending to think that Anaïs is going to do something against Elena. When they are driving home and later, in the car, after Elena comes back from the bathroom, it gets obvious. Experimenting her sexuality through her sister´s, when Anaïs says Elena to not think about Fernando and sleep it seems that she´s saying: just sleep, now it´s my turn. She doesn´t try to escape from the murder, she barely tries to resist; she knows that it´s something inevitable as much as it is to a guy falling in love or be attracted to her sister. She doesn´t seem shocked or sad with her mother and sister´s death, but satisfied for knowing how it´s to be desirable - wrongly thinking, of course - and free (or something alike) of the heavily presence (and beauty) of Elena.