While hardly enamored with Fat Girl, I was fine with it until its conclusion.

| Jan 5, 2021

From its tranquil beginning to its shocking finish, Fat Girl shows Breillat to be a world-class artist working at the top of her form -- even when the lessons of gender, sexuality and social custom may be hard to swallow.

| Feb 28, 2020

Far from being a mere provocateur (although she certainly is one), Breillat shines a light on the way everyday sexism degrades all concerned.

| Oct 24, 2018

I first saw this movie when I was 13 years old and it made me want to take a vow of celibacy. It is brutal and if seen at a formative age, inescapable.

| Oct 24, 2018

Like Breillat's debut feature ("A Real Young Girl") "Fat Girl" is a masterpiece awaiting inspection by audiences open to its meanings and insightful commentary.

| Original Score: A+ | Jan 1, 2017

One of the most disturbing films I've ever seen.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 14, 2010

[Features a] shocking, ambiguous ending.

| Apr 11, 2008

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

To know that [Anaïs Reboux] gives such a performance in service to such a facile, puerile fable of lost virginity takes some of the polish off of her fine work, but it still makes Fat Girl the only Catherine Breillat film I know of that’s worth seeing.

| Oct 27, 2004

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Jul 29, 2003

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 10, 2003

Bold but unrelenting in its depiction of both physical and emotional aggression, Fat Girl will be bracing for those open to its challenges and brutal for those who aren't.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 24, 2003

A strange, discomfiting and fascinating film about the horrors of adolescence.

Full Review | Feb 24, 2003

It's compelling, honest, poignant, somewhat sad and, at the end, very disturbing -- in short, quite a good movie.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 24, 2003

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2002

For women, especially those who have sisters, it should be a must-see.

| Oct 21, 2002

While Fat Girl is graphic and shocking, it is a more compelling argument than Romance.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 19, 2002

The relationship between the girls is the most complicated in the picture, a Gordian knot of affection, resentment, envy, jealousy and intellectual sparring.

| Jun 14, 2002

Breillat is a skilled director, who has created a troubling film that examines the simple pleasures of the human condition for young people and puts a complex spin on it.

| Original Score: B | Jun 11, 2002