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Summary: A Ma Soeur! is a provocative and shocking drama about sibling rivalry, family discord and relationships. Elena is 15, beautiful and flirtatious. Her less confident sister, Anais, is 12, and constantly eats. On holiday, Elena meets a young Italian student who is determined to seduce her. Anais is forced to watch in silence, conspiring with the lovers, but harbouring jealousy and similar desires. Their actions, however, have unforeseen tragic consequences for the whole family. (imdb)
I ... honestly think I liked this, and usually I find Breillat dull and obvious. Here we have a slow-moving, subtle portrait of adolescent sexual discovery, and frustration. The long sexual negotiation in bed between the older sister and her adult boyfriend is magnificently handled. Cruel, believable and hypnotic to watch. Could have done with less shots of highway traffic. Oh, and THAT ENDING ... it sealed the deal for me, but it really does divide people. See for yourself.
This was dope. My brain melted. After, I passed this off to every boring, stuck-up friend I have, and told them it was 'a beautiful french film about young love.'
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus and Catherine Breillat is from Hell. Love the guy in the start, who spends 10 min. trying to convince the younger girl to have sex with him and ends up going at it anal. It reminded me of a High Fidelity quote: "Sometimes I got so bored of trying to touch her breast that I would try to touch her between her legs. It was like trying to borrow a dollar, getting turned down, and asking for 50 grand instead." Only here it worked. French girls are sluts.
A deeply unsettling film that's unflinching in its honest depiction of budding sexuality. Breillat presents painful and cynical truths about how the need to be wanted, to be selected can distance us from a place of security and affection while simultaneously drawing us into a predatory world of exploitation and terror. It's a terrible world where love is synonymous with rape and rejection is a death sentence.
Sometimes shocking yet always intriguing, "Fat Girl" gives us a, perhaps exaggerated. look at how the desire to be loved can be so strong in some people. Often graphic and totally unafraid.
Very interesting character piece that uses long lingering scenes to explore burgeoning sexuality and related pressures. How I feel about what it's actually saying is another matter, especially with the ending that seems to come out of nowhere. Some parts are a culmination of what precedes it, but others seem to simply be there to shock.
The sexual initiation of two adolescent sisters, one kittenish, the other bearish ("No one would think we're sisters"), on a holiday. Very candid and detailed, with extended negotiations required of an older seducer. (Breillat doesn't strive to outdo her hardcore Romance, however; and the rudeness of the title was imposed for export: the original French translates as To My Sister.) Very steady-handed up until the off-key finish. Careful attention to color; excellent shots of freeway traffic.
"The adolescent misery is wrily captured and the depiction of juvenile sex as a battle between lust and hesitant longing is shrewd and sad. But that ending..."
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