Sign In. Fat Girl Hide Spoilers. Oddly titled 'Fat Girl' for international release, the ambiguity of the original French title of this Catherine Breillat movie is quite important as the film is equally about two sisters: one conventionally pretty and the other slightly overweight. At times, the girls are highly competitive with Mesquida expressing contempt for the younger Reboux to look cool in front of an Italian law student they befriend; at other times though, the sisters laugh together and share intimate secrets like lifelong best friends.
Some have been critical of the explicit sexual scenes here, however, Breillat keeps them minimal and a distance; indeed, in the moments when Mesquida is intimate with her newfound boyfriend, we hear everything but see nearly nothing as the camera focuses on Reboux's face, pretending to be asleep in the hotel room she shares with her sister. If there is something to hold against the film, it is the meandering second half with a lot of lengthy drives taking up much of the screen time with tension evaporating once Mesquida has gone all the way.
An unexpected plot turn in the final ten minutes of the film does, however, ensure that the movie ends on a thought-provoking if not necessarily satisfying final note. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. Both girls are still virgins, although Elena is clearly aware of the power of her beauty over the opposite sex. Effortlessly she pulls Italian law student Fernando Libero De Rienzo, with whom she begins an intense relationship. Fernando talks of love, but is obviously keen for sex. Indeed, this is one of the most beguiling scenes in the movie; you feel awkward bearing witness to what is going on - the constant demands of Fernando for 'a demonstration of love', which after refusals brings forth the sorts of coercing phrases regarding anal sex that so many girls must dread to hear.
But at the same time there are wonderful scenes of the two sharing sisterly moments; albeit with bile never far away. The point is well made, the bond is there, no matter how much of a bitch Elena can be. Also well portrayed is the relationship with the parents. Mother is very much like Elena; Father is a workaholic who hates holidays and returns home before the others.
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Her parents offer zero warmth, the only solace coming from a still caustic Elena shoving bread into her mouth to comfort her. The story climaxes as the sisters and their mother return home from their holiday, after a gloriously comic scene where Fernando's mother Laura Betti visits to reclaim a precious ring that he had given to Elena as an engagement ring.
