Fat Girl Critic Reviews

An absolute stunner of a movie.Read the full review

With the pitiless, devastating Fat Girl, Catherine Breillat puts men and women, boys and girls on notice: When fantasy, hypocrisy, and manipulation mix in a wet, sandy place, you dive into sex at your own risk.Read the full review

Despite the disappointing conclusion, it's hard not to be affected by the film, because of the director's frank approach to her subject and the sheer skill with which she tells her story.Read the full review

Much more than a perfectly realized vignette about seduction. It is the latest and most powerful dispatch yet from Ms. Breillat, France's most impassioned correspondent covering the war between the sexes.Read the full review

Proves to be a remarkably lean and incisive film about the fateful power of sexuality.Read the full review

There is a jolting surprise in discovering that this film has free will, and can end as it wants, and that its director can make her point, however brutally.Read the full review

The film's concluding sequence is bound to polarize audiences.Read the full review

This is a different kind of girls' movie, and certainly not a pretty one, especially its horrific head-scratcher of an ending.Read the full review

Uncompromising and unforgiving, but ultimately more self-destructive than any of its characters.Read the full review