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Fat Girl
Why this pick
Breillat shares Assayas’s refusal to soften teenage experience: it is intimate, volatile, and sharply alert to the imbalance between romantic fantasy and lived vulnerability.
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MOVIE1994 1h 32m FRA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Gilles and Christine are teenagers from unstable homes. When they do some shop-lifting together she is arrested, but he gets away. She escapes from a mental institution and meets him at an abandoned house in the country, where a large group of rebellious teenagers are having a wild, all-night party. American rock music from the period is played prominently and has a very strong effect, especially "Me and Bobby McGee," sung by Janis Joplin. Drugs are used, mainly pot and hash. As the party is winding down, Gilles and Christine escape even deeper into the countryside, searching for a commune where artists are said to live without electricity or running water. This is Christine's idea, but Gilles reluctantly goes along. A jolting conclusion shows us that, as Assayas puts it, "Gilles' real life has now begun."
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Virginie Ledoyen
Christine
Jean-Pierre Darroussin
L'inspecteur
Smaïl Mekki
Mourad
Jean-Christophe Bouvet
Le professeur
Ilona Györi
Marie
Jackie Berroyer
Le père de Christine