A Real Young Girl
Why this pick
Breillat’s earlier coming-of-age provocation shares Fat Girl’s unsparing attention to adolescent desire, bodily discomfort, family friction, and the uneasy gap between a girl’s inner life and adult projections.
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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
Breillat’s earlier coming-of-age provocation shares Fat Girl’s unsparing attention to adolescent desire, bodily discomfort, family friction, and the uneasy gap between a girl’s inner life and adult projections.
Why this pick
Its severe, controlled style and emotionally punishing examination of sexuality, shame, and power make it a bracing companion to Fat Girl’s refusal of comforting moral distance.
Why this pick
Andrea Arnold similarly puts a teenage girl’s volatile perspective at the center, combining intimate physical realism, fraught family dynamics, and a constant sense of vulnerability without softening its heroine.
Why this pick
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.
Why this pick
This bleak, urgent portrait of a neglected teenager shares Fat Girl’s uncompromising empathy and its devastating focus on how innocence is exploited by the people and systems around a young girl.
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01 / THE STORY
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Elena Pingot
Fernando

Le père

La mère de Fernando
Le tueur