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Anais Reboux (only 13 during the filming) biography/autobiography is shockingly good here, while Roxane biography/autobiography Mesquida delivers a biography/autobiography similarly powerful and realistic performance. It's the chemistry between them that holds the film together. Without the very human performances from these two girls, I probably would have come away from Fat Girl feeling as angry as I did after seeing Romance. In any case, Fat Girl continues Catherine Breillat's exploration of sexual psychology from a female perspective, and it's as likely to infuriate and shock as it is to provoke thought and discussion. Like Romance (but to a lesser extent), the film feels a bit too self-indulgent and Breillat still comes off like she's using her characters to carry out her own twisted agenda. Even so, her characters come off as real people this time around, people worth caring about, however flawed they might be.
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