Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Fat Girl(À ma soeur!)

Catherine BREILLAT 2000 France Fiction color 86min French 35mm
Twelve-year-old overweight Anaïs lives in the shadow of her beautiful older sister, Elena. The ever observant Anaïs watches on as her sister's innocence is stripped away when she becomes prey to a conniving Italian law student.

Director

Catherine BREILLAT

Catherine BREILLAT is a Paris based filmmaker and writer who became famous for her distinctively personal films on sexuality, gender trouble and sibling rivalry. Since her first own film Une vraie jeune fille (1976), which was released 23 years after its shooting, Breillat explored critically as well as in an innovative way the perceptions imposed on female sexuality, related family and coming of age issues.

Catherine BREILLAT

Selected Filmography

  • 1976《一個真正的年輕女孩》Une vraie jeune fille
  • 1999《羅曼史》Romance
  • 2001 Fat Girl 2002 Sex is Comedy
  • 2004《感官解析》Anatomy of Hell
  • 2007 An Old Mistress
  • 2010 The Sleeping Beauty
  • 2013《以脆弱之名》Abuse of Weakness