Fat Girl (2001)

Very well executed

Best movie ever!

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

This is one of the movies I could easily rate as one of the most hateful movies of all time. I saw it some time ago on TV, as the last thing on that day, so, luckily, it couldn't spoil much of the rest of my day.But I imagine myself what would have been had I seen this on big screen, having paid for it. I think I would have asked myself: "Did I really need to see this ?" Worst thing is it doesn't get that bad, to make you walk out on it, until the last few minutes, but, when it gets bad, it gets obnoxious.I wonder what made the director want to do this movie, then, I remembered that this species of film directors exist for quite some time, who want to stir controversy at all costs, and who live on the hype, and not on the money their movies make.Having said all that I think that this movie could have been saved at least partially, if that last sequence of events had been set only in the imagination of the young girl. All the movie is about the build-up of hate from the main character towards her sister (and her mom, for her indifference), so I could have understood it. But then the director said: "Well, let's make it real. Just for shock's sake. I bet every film critic will have something to say about this."1* (because 0 is not an option on IMDb, unfortunately).

a true portrait of some incredibly immature people you can't possibly come to care one bit about, who flop from one impulse or random surface emotion to another, lie to and absent-mindedly manipulate each other, with loads of prurient underage sex that adds nothing to the story, and a supremely lazy ending that i wish like hell i could get out of my memory. if you want to believe the above reviewers who say it's all poignant and intimate and all that, well go right ahead and see it. but when you hate the vicious ending and can't get it out of your head ever and it gives you the creeps every time you think of it, well, i did try to warn you. i've seen a couple of her films (this will be the last ever), and she seems to take a very schizophrenic delight in openly wallowing in the permissive/sordid lives of her characters, only to kill them out of nowhere, ultimately an incredibly dull moralizing prudishness masked as curiosity. maybe this smelled like a big windup to some big revelation to her, but to me it just stunk.

Fat Girl is a very different kind of movie. Anais is the "fat girl" of the movie and she loves to eat. She watches her beautiful sister Elena get involved with and get seduced by a suitor. All Anais wants is to lose her virginity too. When she makes out with an imaginary boyfriend in the swimming pool, it is heart-breaking. The actors are all stunning all around. The ending, like the synopsis said, is shocking and controversial. I think it is fitting because real life is never predicted. All the events and reasonings we are all lead up to are believable because Anais never hides who she is and what she wants. Fat Girl is a movie that was never seen by the masses but lucky it is now available on DVD. I would never want to watch it more than once, but I recommend everybody to see it at least once.

I have just seen "A Ma Soeur", and all I can say is it's a pretentious piece if garbage. What is it about French film directors that makes critics and film buffs alike salivate at the mouth when discussing what are , essentially, in the main, arrogant, self-indulgent works of pseudo-intellectual nonsense? You can throw Pedro Almoldovar into that category as well. He is yet another European "auteur" whose films grate to the point where I want to throw a brick at the screen. All of this solipsistic home-spun philosophizing gimmickry is nothing more than a case of the "Emperor's New Clothes".In the case of "A Ma Soeur", the denouement is totally incongruous and non-sequitir with the rest of the film; completely out of sync with the main corpus of the piece. For the most part, we are watching a sleazy Italian student attempting to deflower an attractive teenage girl while her younger overweight sister looks on. This, in itself evoked a sense of "ennui" in me. For the gratuitous sake of sensationalism, a few controversial love scenes are added to the mix, but hey, this IS a French film, so it is all for the sake of "Art" and "Artistic Endeavour" The ending is so ridiculous and over the top that it bears no resemblance to the themes and motifs of the rest of the film. If a Hollywood director made a piece of garbage like this, he would have been rightly lambasted but, because this is a French film, it is regarded by the pseudo-intellectual cognoscenti as "challenging" and "uncompromising".The denouement reminded me of those excellent films, "The Player" and "Adaptation", where Altman and Kaufman/Jonze respectively take the unmerciful p**s out of overblown, sensationalist Hollywood films, which start out in one direction but take a completely different route for the sake of increased cinema audiences and publicity; except "A Ma Soeur" continued to take itself seriously right up to the silly unbelievable,ridiculous ending.