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In some ways that's an unfair MO: If that's the only way Breillat thinks she obituaries can get our attention, she must not think much of us an audience. But there's no getting around that Breillat is a confrontational director; she has no interest obituaries in making her audience comfortable with her characters. But she's also aware that where sexuality is concerned (and sexuality is her chief obsession, although her movies are far from sexy), it won't do to invite quick and clear responses. "Fat Girl" obituaries is one of the most distressing pictures I've seen all year, but it's also unnervingly bottomless: Days after seeing it, I still haven't completely come to terms with its themes -- half delicately suggested, half outlined in thick crayon -- and I can't stop thinking about them. Anaïs (Anaïs Reboux) is an overweight 13-year-old girl who may be on the verge of budding attractiveness -- it's hard to tell just yet, as her whiny self-centeredness, combined with her constant and compulsive overeating and the fact that she's arrived squarely at an age that for many of us is just plain bad, manages to obscure many of her potentially good qualities.
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