CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

Back to the finderTHE FILM / 2001
Fat Girl posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

THE FEATURE PRESENTATION

MOVIE2001 1h 26m FRA

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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Fat Girl

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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME

Keep the feeling.

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A more restrained but equally perceptive study of adolescent female desire and social cruelty, observed with the same insistence that young girls’ feelings are complex, contradictory, and consequential.

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Roxane Mesquida

Roxane Mesquida

Elena Pingot

Libero De Rienzo

Fernando

Romain Goupil

Romain Goupil

Le père

Laura Betti

Laura Betti

La mère de Fernando

Albert Goldberg

Le tueur