| Edition |
Director-approved special édition. |
| Description |
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.. |
| Series |
Criterion collection ; 259 |
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Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 259.
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Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.)
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| System Details |
DVD; region 1, NTSC; Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation. |
| Cast |
Anaïs Reboux, Roxane Mesquida, Libero de Rienzo, Arsinée Khanjian, Romain Goupil, Laura Betti. |
| Credits |
Editor, Pascale Chavance ; image, Yorgos Arvanitis ; décor, François Renaud Labarthe ; costumes, Catherine Meillan. |
| Note |
Originally produced as a French motion picture in 2001. |
| Summary |
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? |
| Audience |
Not rated. |
| Note |
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. |
| Awards |
Winner, France Culture Award [for] French Cineaste of the Year: Catherine Breillat, 2001Festival de Cannes. |
| Language |
French dialogue with optional subtitles in English. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Teenage girls -- Drama.
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Teenage girls -- France -- Drama.
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Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
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Teenage girls -- Sexual behavior -- Drama.
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Feature films.
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| Genre/Form |
Foreign films.
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Foreign language films.
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Motion pictures, French.
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| Added Author |
Breillat, Catherine.
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Lepetit, Jean-François, 1953-
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Reboux, Anaïs.
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Mesquida, Roxane.
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Rienzo, Libero de.
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Khanjian, Arsinée, 1958-
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Goupil, Romain.
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Betti, Laura.
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Janus Films.
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Studio Canal+.
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Criterion Collection (Firm)
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| Added Title |
Fat girl |
| ISBN |
0780029089 |
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9780780029088 |
| Standard No. |
037429197721 |
| Music No. |
FAT060 Criterion Collection |
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