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I had read little about it beforehand, but had a habit of buy going to see just about every new French movie that came along. I left the theater exhilarated, feeling I had just seen a very fresh buy work that had peeled some of the mold off of the way French buy movies had, for some time, been romanticizing the sexuality of youth. Three years on, after having watched it again upon its DVD release, I feel I had been fooled. In the intervening time, I had seen two other Catherine Breillat films: Romance, made before Fat Girl, and Sex is Comedy, made after and a commentary on the making of Fat Girl. I had also become acquainted with the work of filmmakers with whom Breillat is often compared: Gaspar Noé, Claire Denis, and Michael Haneke, as well as the work of other French women filmmakers who explore (or have explored) similar themes: Denis again, Agnès Varda, and Marina de Van, director of the peerless yet practically unseen In My Skin. I have also had the dubious fortune to see or read several interviews with Breillat.
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