Fat Girl
Synopsis
Anaïs carries the weight of the world on her 12-year-old shoulders. Her body is both a temple of pain and a fortress. Hunched in defense or plain ignored, she observes. It is summer. The beach. Family vacation. Summer romance. Initiation, therefore, and first love. Immured in the chrysalis of her weight, Anaïs undergoes this rite of passage by proxy, observing her beloved (and hated) older sister, her chimerical alter ego, her imago. Eléna is 15 and wickedly gorgeous. She is no more frivolous or dumb than her younger sister, but she can’t understand that she’s merely an object of lust and as such, all she can do is be taken. Or be had. In fact, that’s what it’s all about: girls losing their virginity. It doesn’t belong to them; it belongs to society, which keeps its terrible tally — and opens the door to drama, that summer.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (9)
Production and distribution (6)
- Executive Producer : Flach Film
- Co-productions : Arte France Cinéma, CB Films
- Foreign production company : Urania Film
- Film exports/foreign sales : Les Films du Loup
- French distribution : Rezo Films
- News agency (France) : Claude Davy & Emmanuel Egretier (ex-DDD Conseil)
Full credits (18)
- Executive Producer : Jean-François Lepetit
- Screenwriter : Catherine Breillat
- Directors of Photography : Yorgos Arvanitis, Olivier Fortin, Christophe Le Caro
- Assistant Director : Michaël Weill
- Editors : Pascale Chavance, Gwénola Heaulme, Frédéric Barbe
- Sound recordists : Jean Minondo, Olivier Villette, Erwan Kerzanet
- Costume designers : Catherine Meillan, Anne Dunsford-Varenne
- Sound assistants : Erwan Kerzanet, Olivier Villette
- Assistant Operators : Olivier Fortin, Christophe Le Caro
- Camera Operator : Jacques Monge
- Press Attaché (film) : Claude Davy
- Sound editors : Frédéric Attal, Sylvain Lasseur
- Assistant editors : Frédéric Barbe, Gwénola Heaulme
- Continuity supervisor : Séverine Siaut
- Production Designers : François-Renaud Labarthe, Yann Richard, Cécilia Blom
- Foley artist : Philippe Penot
- Stunt performer : Michel Carliez
- Casting : Michaël Weill, Olivier Carbone, Nicolas Lublin
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Adolescence
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Italy
