Fat Girl

A chubby adolescent French girl (Anaïs Reboux) stews with love-hate resentment of her older, slimmer, prettier, randier sister (Roxane Mesquida). Catherine Breillat’s latest gob of snooty Eurotrash is being fraudulently sold as a sensitive coming-of-age drama, but audiences are being sold a crock. What it is in fact is hardcore sex and violence, rape and murder from France, the latest in a wave of movies (like Breillat’s own Romance in 1999) desperately designed to regain the edge in high-tone porn that France lost when American movies started showing nudity. That’s the Eurotrash; the snooty part is represented by more of Breillat’s idiotic dialogue (“We hate each other because we’re raised as rivals”), the kind of gaseous pensées that you hear nowhere but in bad French drama.