À ma soeur! Fat girl /
A daring and provocative exploration of the complexities of sexual awakening involving 12-year old Anaïs. With her family on holiday by the sea, she yearns for the experience of first love. However, she experiences it by proxy when her beautiful older sister, Elena, gets involved with an older boy....
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| Format: | Unknown |
| Language: | French English |
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[Irvington, N.Y.] :
Criterion Collection,
c2004
[Irvington, NY] : c2004 |
| Series: | Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.)
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| Summary: | A daring and provocative exploration of the complexities of sexual awakening involving 12-year old Anaïs. With her family on holiday by the sea, she yearns for the experience of first love. However, she experiences it by proxy when her beautiful older sister, Elena, gets involved with an older boy. Soon Elena's naive hopes of romance will be crushed, setting in motion a chain of events that will shatter her family forever Chubby pre-adolescent Anaïs is spending the summer with her short-tempered mother, her workaholic father, and her beautiful, boy-crazy older sister, Elena. Elena meets and begins dating Fernando, a handsome, older Italian law student, and makes Anaïs a co-conspirator in Fernando's midnight visits to their shared bedroom. Thus is Anaïs--mute witness to her sister's initiation into sex--left raging with jealousy and self-loathing. Anaïs avers that she is ready for her own sexual adventure, but what will happen when she has it? Special features: Behind-the-scenes footage from the making of the movie; two interviews with the director, including a look at the film's alternate ending; original French and U.S. theatrical trailers; an essay by film critic Ginette Vincendeau, and an interview with Breillat, from the French film magazine, Positif |
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| Item Description: | Originally produced as a French motion picture in 2001 Special features: The making of "Fat Girl" [featurette] (6 min.); Catherine Breillat talks about her film [interview] (10 min.); Catherine Breillat: 2001 Berlin International Film Festival [interview] (12 min.); theatrical trailers [U.S.] (2 min.), [French] (2 min.); Booklet includes "One Soul with Two Bodies: an Interview with Catherine Breillat" by Stéphane Goudet and Claire Vassé; "About the Title" an essay by Catherine Breillat; and "Sisters, Sex, and Sitcom" by Ginette Vincendeau Videodisc release of the 2001 motion picture "Under exclusive license from Code Red Films"--Videodisc label |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet 1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 folded sheet ([12] p.) : ill. ; 19 cm.) |
| Format: | DVD (NTSC), region 1, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo ; DTS 5.1 soundtracks ; enhanced for 16.9 televisions DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1; widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 1.85:1, enhanced for 16:9 televisions |
| Awards: | Winner, France Culture Award [for] French Cineaste of the Year: Catherine Breillat, 2001Festival de Cannes |
| Production Credits: | Montage [editor] Pascale Chavance ; image [photography], Yorgos Arvanitis ; décor [production design], François Renaud Labarthe ; costumes, Catherine Meillan Photography, Yorgos Arvanitis; sets, François Renaud Labarthe; costumes, Catherine Meillan, Ann Dunsford Varenne |
| ISBN: | 0780029089 9780780029088 |