Fat Girl
The films of the Catherine Breillat regularly run into trouble, often because of Breillat’s use of what looks like unsimulated sex. Fat Girl (aka À Ma Soeur aka Story of a Whale) isn’t as explicitly explicit as Romance – which featured a real porn star doing the business with a young actress (fake, she said; not so, said he) – but it’s upfront enough about what’s going on. When it came out in 2001, the world still hadn’t quite got its head around the fact that sex – naked people doing whatever it was you wanted to watch them doing – was on tap 24/7. And so everyone focused on the film’s key … Read more