Fat Girl
Catherine Breillat · 2001
Catherine Breillat’s 2001 drama follows twelve-year-old Anaïs and her fifteen-year-old sister Elena over a summer holiday in Les Mathes. Through precise, unsentimental staging and restrained performances, the film charts their divergent encounters with desire, bodily autonomy, and adult indifference. Its power lies in accumulation — not shock — as small exclusions build toward inevitable rupture. Controversial on release for its frank depiction of teenage sexuality and coercion, it remains a rigorous, unsettling examination of epistemic injustice in the domestic sphere.
