A Ma Soeur- review

'Fat Girl' 

'Fat Girl' is the english title for this incredibly twisted French film. Im a fan of French cinema and this had been on my list of films to watch for a while. So I thought id give it a chance and boy was I flabbergasted by this warped storyline. The film is about two sisters one who is a little more older than the other Elena and her younger sister Anaiïs. The sisters are the complete opposite Elena a delicate flower graceful, slender and stunning and Anaïs is on the frumpier side, piggish and introverted at times.

Elena wished to lose her virginity and to fall in love with many guys, and she isn't shy about it either the first guy she meets at her local outdoor cafe seems to be the chosen one. She flirts with him openly in front of her sister and brings him home and not the only thing she does in front of her sister, in their bedroom. Poor Anaïs tries to sleep while all of this goes on and is not standing for it, the next morning she interrupts, angry that she lost many hours of sleep Elena then slaps her. Anaïs wishes to lose her virginity with a stranger because she finds the concept embarrassing it is hinted at throughout the film she is embarrassed of her body but nether the less tries to triumph over her sister which never works out too well for her. Long story short the sisters both have an underlining love for each other but it is clear that Elena is not very nice and treats her sister more as a tool to make herself feel better. SPOILER ALERT, the end of the film however is so overwhelming and insane it makes you want to burst into hysterical tears of laughter.

Basically there mother takes them on a seaside holiday so to speak and on the way home they park up in a motel parking lot to catch some sleep. A random axe murderer smashes through their windscreen slashing Elena's once beautiful face killing her instantly and slowly strangles their mother also too. Anaïs however watches this (it kind of looked like she enjoyed it and yet was a tiny bit shocked) and slowly gets out the car, the axe man walks towards her luring her into the woods and raping her. The next day the police investigate and Anaïs surviving the dreadful night insists he didn't rape her and the titles roll.  I know completely insane however I really liked the film.

I don't think the majority of people would like the film but people who are fond of cinema in general will find it pretty amusing at times uncomfortable and I thought hilarious. The only scenes that seemed to really irritate me were when Anaïs would have random lonely outbursts of singing which were far to long and awful. Overall a funny disturbing drama or in my eyes a tad bit of dark comedy at times.