This so called art film is just a lot of nothing. Long sequences of nothing such as the main character swimming back and forth kissing the steps of the pool. A scene where they are just eating sandwiches lasts forever. The film pacing is so slow that it feels much longer than it actually is. It was a completely miserable experience from start to finish. It’s truly an awful movie. One of the worst I’ve had to endure. Shout out to my gf for showing me this!

It was something for sure, do I recommended it? no, it was gross and french.

A serious and intense movie, not designed for escape or audience comfort, with excellent acting and directing. It has lighter moments but is ultimately disturbing. To me if felt true and authentic, and thus us recommended to those who are ok with serious but well crafted films without heroes, special effects or cheerful endings.

One of the worst movies I’ve ever seen.

The greatest 01 hour: and 26 minutes ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's about an overweight girl and her older sister!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Always refreshing to see the French ride that line (and sometimes pass it). Really enjoyed it when the film provides those long scenes where the two lead actresses can act and have their very real moments together as sisters. That ending was also one of the most shocking and unexpected endings I've seen.

Child pornography as art the way on the French can justify. Hideous and exploitive with zero commentary or meaning.

You may see this movie and think, "Wow. Such drama. Very art!" Ooooorrrr... you'll find Catherine Breillat to be an overplayed ped-phile with nothing to offer except her depressingly psychotic whims. I found this movie to be boring from the beginning. It has nothing to say, nothing to offer. Just, as per all her films, "Life sucks then you die... and if you don't die, it's because your life hasn't sucked enough yet so don't worry, you'll be r-ped or beaten up soon... then you can die." Then to add insult, every lead character in some way welcomes their abuse, because again, "Life is pain." So apparently, there is nothing worth existing for except existing horrifically before a horrific death.

Apparently, Fat Girl was controversial upon release for its candid depiction of female sexuality, but that's the entire point of the film - the depiction of adolesence as a period marked by aggressive behavior, personal desire that can be shocking in its intensity, and fitful confusion. The relationship between sisters Anaïs and Elena Pingot is well fleshed-out and sincere, a cocktail of intimacy, camaraderie, and jealousy that renders them each other's closest confidants while also routinely spitting venom at one another; they didn't choose one another and lament their differences, but recognize the experiences that they both share as tying them together. Where Fat Girl loses me is where it seems to lose most people, namely the ending. It's tied in thematically, but comes out of nowhere, trades on shock value, is patently unrealistic, and feels cheap. What is otherwise a grounded but passionate drama that shines a light on the emotional complexity and vulnerability of puberty ends up feeling too auteur for its own good, a "so overt it's covert" tie-in to the film's messaging regarding gender roles and sexual dynamics. (2.5/5)

1001 movies to see before you die. This one leaves an impression, but not a good one. It had some promise, showing what teenagers are up against in France, but it was tedious. Saw on HBO.

Boring in that arty French way with a lot of chatter and with a little spicing up with some graphic full frontal nudity that turns in to some pretty tame soft core porn. And then - wham! - at the end it just goes off in to the bizarre, in a way that just comes off as more for the shock value than having any relation to how the plot was developing. I would give it a pass.

Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl is a sometimes-touching film about two teenage sisters and how they deal with adolescence, their emerging sexuality, and the simmering sibling rivalry that exists between them. Often, Breillat effectively permits the camera to linger on scenes to allow the action to play out with few or any cuts, the actors' expressions or actions dictating the mood of the film. As effective as many of these scenes are, there are an equal number that are baffling, including the long car ride scene that prefaces what could be the most out of nowhere final scene in quite some time. Fat Girl is truly a mixed bag, both story-wise and stylistically.

Well that made me uncomfortable do an hour and a half. Great performances layered on all too real scenes. A movie where you've no idea where you'll end up and when you do you need to do a bit of thinking and googling.

Ugh. I hated this movie. Pretentious art house stuff where filming people eating a sandwich for three minutes in silence is supposed to be profound. The movie is mostly just banal teenage sister drama and then a tacked on ending that comes out of the blue for no other reason except apparently to end the film. A stinker.

As tough a film to rate as it is to sit through. I haven't seen it in 19 years since it was released, but it obviously has stuck with me enough to commit to this review. A film that deserves praise for sheer fearlessness alone, yet feels wrong giving any praise or accolades to.

It's a nice movie. Good: A coming of age story of two teenagers in what it comes to sex and its importance in one's development. It also touches on bad parenting, and relationships between siblings. Bad: The end. We really don't need the last five minutes of the movie.

Not sure whether the sudden ending spoils the other, good romantic aspects of the film.

While very real, emotional and picturesque, it's not for everyone

This film is a hot mess, which fits the element of adolescence that it portrays. I feel somewhat down about ranking it 3/5, but I think that's just the joy I got out of the novelty of French cinema talking. It was a sluggish film for most of it.

watch it again, incredible film about life, youth, sex, love, and the end is like oh so unexpected. Catherine Breillat is like the goddess of erotic films.