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Fat Girl

36 Fillette

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Fat Girl

Twelve-year-old Anaïs is fat. Her sister, fifteen-year-old Elena, is a beauty. While the girls are on vacation with their parents, Anaïs tags along as Elena explores the dreary seaside town. Elena meets Fernando, an Italian law student; he seduces her with promises of love, and the ever watchful Anaïs bears witness to the corruption of her sister’s innocence. Fat Girl is not only a portrayal of female adolescent sexuality and the complicated bond between siblings but also a shocking assertion by the always controversial Catherine Breillat that violent oppression exists at the core of male-female relations. (Janus Films)

Director
Catherine Breillat
Writer
Catherine Breillat
Starring
Anaïs Reboux, Roxane Mesquida, Libero De Rienzo, Arsinée Khanjian
Year
2001
Country
France/Italy
Format
English subtitled 35mm
Running Time
86 minutes

36 Fillette

After a nine-year absence from the director’s chair, Catherine Breillat returned with 36 fillette, having lost none of her power to push both boundaries and buttons. Delphine Zentout plays Lili, a precocious fourteen-year-old girl on a seaside family vacation. Drawn to a bitter middle-aged man (Étienne Chicot), Lili longs to lose her virginity and initiates a contest of wills in which she discovers herself more mature than, but still rattled by the equivocations of, her chauvinistic counterpart. Fueled by an extraordinary performance by then-sixteen-year-old Zentout, and featuring a scene-stealing Jean-Pierre Léaud as Lili’s brief confidant, 36 fillette showcases Breillat as an incisive chronicler of the subtle evolutions of teenage desire. (Janus Films)

Director
Catherine Breillat
Writer
Written by Catherine Breillat based on the novel 36 Fillette by Catherine Breillat, co-screenwriter Roger Salloch
Starring
Delphine Zentout, Étienne Chicot, Olivier Parnière, Jean-Pierre Léaud
Year
1988
Country
France
Format
English subtitled 35mm
Running Time
89 minutes

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Tue, April 29
7:30 pm
Fat Girl
9:25 pm
36 Fillette

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