So much average

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Having such realistic and well made dialogs in your film is one of the greatest pros I can grant to a film maker. My warmest congratulations to Breillat for this aspect of the movie , as well as for presenting so accurately flirt and sex scenes without being offensive or vulgar in my eyes. I understand that many concerned voices raised when a film where teenage girls are exploring their sexuality came out , due to modern fruitless moralism. Let's be honest with ourselves and admit that sex is number one topic of thoughts and conversations at the ages of the girls as depicted , so cinema should not be forbidden to materialize them as they represent reality,no matter how raw. Cinematographically , *spoiler* I really enjoyed the long takes in which Libero De Rienzo is trying to persuade Mesquida to have sex for the first time. It felt so real and somehow everyone can relate to these moments. However I found myself largely disappointed with the ending. Normally I avoid judging scriptwriters' and directors' choices but that kind of twist did not seem to fit in this otherwise very successful and accurate presentation of human relationships.

I had to watch this film for my university French course and, don't get me wrong, I love French and French cinema, but this is one of the exceptions. For the majority of the film, I was bored, confused and occasionally repulsed. My repulsion is quite explainable, due to the amount of nuditiy in this film. While I don't find the female body repulsive, I do find needless scenes of female nudity being shoved in my face repulsive, particularly when they involve the breasts of a 14 year- old girl. My boredom and confusion however, stem from the fact that virtually every scene in this film is either too long or goes nowhere, often just seeming like filler. There are also scenes which make no sense whatsoever, such as when Anaïs suddenly appears naked on the beach, without any rhyme or reason. Then, suddenly, at the end, we are hit by an unfeasibly dark 'twist'. I put 'twist' in inverted commas because the mood of the film towards the end makes it blatantly obvious that there will be one. The only thing we aren't told is what that twist is. The twist itself is needlessly violent, and the reactions of the characters are somewhat confusing.This film shall be condemned to the vast scrapheap of movies I have seen, simply because it goes nowhere and makes little to no sense.

What I learned from this film . . . . and the other films of this Director! Words like Provocative, Controversial, Shocking when used to describe a film usually mean a film has already been made that deals with the subject that has more taste, cleverness, attention to narrative believability and character development than the Provocative Controversial and Shocking one.Provocative, Controversial, and Shocking filmmakers can get people to watch their films by being Provocative, Controversial, and Shocking over and over again on basically the same theme.Girls (at least in France) will start French kissing you in a public cafe within the first 2 minutes of meeting you in front of your sister if you are from Italy, cute and have limited command of French but can amazingly have 30 minute intimate conversations and then mentally rape you with their limited command of French.Teenagers (at least in France and parts of Italy) think about sex 24 hours a day and have no other interests that would make them fully rounded human beings worth really caring about and when they actually are intimate show no compassion tenderness or enjoyment of eroticism because men always mentally rape girls and girls are really dense.Mental Rape consists of being - conned into having Anal sex(because it's not real sex)by someone who doesn't really speak your language well- with your sister in the room. Going down on your boyfriend the next day without him even asking because you're "confused" and don't realize you've been mentally raped, but you go down on him anyway because???. Having sex on the beach, again with the sister nearby, having sex at night again with the sister in the room. Telling the girl you really love her and want to see her again and then still not really knowing you've been mentally raped because mental rape means you don't realize you're being mentally raped.Wondering if %100 percent of civilization has been missing out by not having their sister in the room while having passionless sex.There can be really cool scenes on highways that build up and then go nowhere.Serial Killers can blunder out of Nowhere smash your window without your Mother waking up, kill your Sister, rip your mothers clothes and fondle her for no apparent reason before killing her and then not kill you but rape you and make you eat your own underwear but letting you live so there will be a cool freeze frame at the end that is Provocative Controversial and Shocking.It is OK and not outrageously hypocritical for a Director seeking the "truth" to lie to a 13 year old actress by telling them their dog just died to get a performance out of them.It is OK (in France at least) to have a 13 year old perform a brutal explicit rape scene and gag on her own underwear as its stuffed into her mouth and have it not considered pornographic but artistic because its the "truth" - by way of a dead dog that's not really dead.It is OK to mock people even liberals! because they find a 13 year old performing a brutal explicit rape scene and gag on her own underwear as its stuffed into her mouth as pornographic and not enlightened.It is OK to have a 13 year old perform a brutal explicit rape scene and gag on her own underwear as its stuffed into her mouth but not to actually see the finished film because they are not old enough.There are some people who don't understand why the above is painfully ironic and will mock you for mentioning it and call you "Moral" and "you must be an American" These same people are Enlightened.Enlightenment in the 21st century is more of a catch phrase people use when they can't explain why someone is not "Getting It" and are too busy "texting to explain further. It is not the same as Enlightenment in the age that nobody cares about anymore because it happened along time ago and they don't bother to teach it in school because they would have to cut the budget on the new Football field to pay for the classes.It is OK and not outrageously hypocritical for a Director seeking the "truth" about the degrading aspects of sex on women as dealt by men to hire a notorious porn star who has dunked womens heads into toilets while having anal sex to act in your film because he has a big weenie.It is OK and not outrageously hypocritical to say professional seasoned actors are all mediocre and conformists because they are too smart to agree to be in your films.It is OK and not outrageously hypocritical to say professional seasoned actors are all mediocre and conformists because they don't look good nude or have small weenies.Saying "All true artists are hated" is only %50 true. It won't make you an artist but it will get you hated.It is OK for a filmmaker to have a grossly unhealthy, childishly obsessive and ugly view of human sexuality without offering any juxtaposition, contrast or thematic development of this limited theme and pass it off as Provocative, Controversial, Shocking and "truthful" over and over again while using manipulation, hypocritical views, methods and a serious lack of narrative common sense, instead of seeking some kind of therapy so they will stop making the same movies on the same subject the rest of their lives.

Truthfully I didn't get much out of Fat Girl. It was a moderately realistic approach to a pretty dysfunctional family, with some serious issues thrown in here and there....actually there are issues thrown all over the place. This movie is unique in a way where you don't focus on anything else besides what's going to happen next. For example, films like Happiness or Bad Boy Bubby, these are two films where the situations presented are so strong and realistic feeling you don't even think about the acting or cinematography etc. For this feeling that Fat Girl gives off, the film should be applauded. But on the other hand it doesn't really teach you anything. Anyone with a grip on today's reality, should understand these situations aren't so uncommon. But the ending is a totally different story. I, like everyone else watching this flick was waiting for something to happen to Anaise, but what did occur was pretty out-there. Im sure they could have handled the situation differently, to get that same exact line Anaise spoke. For one, why not have sister's boyfriend rape her? But, I suppose it's not the situation that is most important, but why she said it in the first place. All her talk about not wanting her first to be someone she didn't love.....she wasn't kidding.