Fat Girl (2001)
Directed by Catherine Breillat
Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, Elena, whom she both loves and hates. Elena is fifteen and devilishly beautiful. Neither more futile, nor more stupid than her younger sister, she cannot understand that she is merely an object of desire. And, as such, she can only be taken. Or had. Indeed, this is the subject: a girl's loss of virginity. And, that summer, it opens a door to tragedy.
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Cribbing more from the cringey French dramas of Catherine Breillat (think: a less perverse Fat Girl ) than the warm and fuzzy ‘80s staples of John Hughes, Eighth Grade is the painfully real attempt at comprehending what it means to grow up in a generation overwhelmed with information, which in turn transforms nearly everything about the process into a competition (even more so than it organically is).
It’s important to note that Burnham isn’t making Fat Girl here.
Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl and Louis Malle's Pretty Baby are unstinting in their honesty while retaining awareness of the sensitivity of their subject matter.
With this luridly beautiful film, Araki graduates into the company of such explorers as Todd Solondz ("Happiness") and Catherine Breillat ("Fat Girl").
In a sequence that recalls "The Devil's Rejects" with its rundown desert motel, Treadie watches the woman who's caught his eye, Sheila (Roxane Mesquida, "Fat Girl"), get into her shower.
Its primary obsession: a French tourist (Fat Girl’s Roxane Mesquida) lodging at a seedy motel.