À ma soeur (2001)
(Fat Girl)
Country: FR/IT
Technical: col 86m
Director: Catherine Breillat
Cast: Anaïs Reboux, Roxane Mesquida, Libero De Rienzo, Arsinée Khanjian, Laura Betti
Synopsis:
On holiday with their mother and all but absent father, two sisters have their first sexual experiences, the pretty sixteen year-old's defloration being witnessed by her overweight younger sibling; an experience whose sordid overtones underscore a particularly grim climax.
Review:
Familiar territory after 36 fillette, one might think. Which is why, perhaps, the director pays off in such a forbidding way, implying that it is the elder sister's lack of respect for herself and her sex that leads the younger to embrace her fate and protect her secret as an errant teenager would from her parents. It is also, however, society's expectations of the loss of innocence, mainly fuelled by male blandishments, but reinforced by the girls' 'C'est dégueulasse d'être vierge', that Breillat once again holds responsible for modern woman's unhappiness. The one scene in the film where the pair are at peace is when they reminisce in bed together about their childhood experiences; surely no accident.
(Fat Girl)
Country: FR/IT
Technical: col 86m
Director: Catherine Breillat
Cast: Anaïs Reboux, Roxane Mesquida, Libero De Rienzo, Arsinée Khanjian, Laura Betti
Synopsis:
On holiday with their mother and all but absent father, two sisters have their first sexual experiences, the pretty sixteen year-old's defloration being witnessed by her overweight younger sibling; an experience whose sordid overtones underscore a particularly grim climax.
Review:
Familiar territory after 36 fillette, one might think. Which is why, perhaps, the director pays off in such a forbidding way, implying that it is the elder sister's lack of respect for herself and her sex that leads the younger to embrace her fate and protect her secret as an errant teenager would from her parents. It is also, however, society's expectations of the loss of innocence, mainly fuelled by male blandishments, but reinforced by the girls' 'C'est dégueulasse d'être vierge', that Breillat once again holds responsible for modern woman's unhappiness. The one scene in the film where the pair are at peace is when they reminisce in bed together about their childhood experiences; surely no accident.
(Fat Girl)
Country: FR/IT
Technical: col 86m
Director: Catherine Breillat
Cast: Anaïs Reboux, Roxane Mesquida, Libero De Rienzo, Arsinée Khanjian, Laura Betti
Synopsis:
On holiday with their mother and all but absent father, two sisters have their first sexual experiences, the pretty sixteen year-old's defloration being witnessed by her overweight younger sibling; an experience whose sordid overtones underscore a particularly grim climax.
Review:
Familiar territory after 36 fillette, one might think. Which is why, perhaps, the director pays off in such a forbidding way, implying that it is the elder sister's lack of respect for herself and her sex that leads the younger to embrace her fate and protect her secret as an errant teenager would from her parents. It is also, however, society's expectations of the loss of innocence, mainly fuelled by male blandishments, but reinforced by the girls' 'C'est dégueulasse d'être vierge', that Breillat once again holds responsible for modern woman's unhappiness. The one scene in the film where the pair are at peace is when they reminisce in bed together about their childhood experiences; surely no accident.