Catherine Breillat on Fat Girl, Sexual Assault, and Motherhood

Catherine Breillat discusses Fat Girl at Film at Lincoln Center's retrospective Carnal Knowledge: The Films of Catherine Breillat. Last Summer opens June 28 with Breillat in person all weekend! Get tickets: www.filmlinc.org/films/last-summer/ An appropriately boundary-pushing follow-up to Romance, Fat Girl is still considered by many to be Breillat’s magnum opus. Overweight 12-year-old Anaïs (Anaïs Reboux) sullenly spends a languorous summer holiday in the seaside town of Les Mathes trailing after her indifferent mother (Arsinée Khanjian) and seductive older sister Elena (Roxane Mesquida), a heralded beauty whom Anaïs both loves and loathes. They meet an Italian law student who has eyes for Elena, setting into motion a series of events by which Anaïs’s violent sexual fantasies and tendency toward self-abjection threaten to annihilate reality as she knows it. An NYFF38 selection. A Janus Films release. More info: filmlinc.org/ Subscribe: youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=filmlincd… Like on Facebook: facebook.com/filmlinc Follow on X: twitter.com/filmlinc Follow on Instagram: instagram.com/filmlinc

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