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3	''À ma sœur !'' (''For my Sister!''), released in some English-speaking countries as ''Fat Girl'', is a 2001 French drama film directed by Creator/CatherineBreillat.
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5	Sisters Anais and Elena Pingot (Anais Reboux and Roxane Mesquida) are on a vacation at the seaside with their mother and {{workaholic}} father. Anais is 13 and Elena is 15. Elena is a blossoming beauty, whereas Anais is her chubby kid sister; hence the English title. Elena is sexually active but has not yet lost her virginity, wanting [[TheirFirstTime her first time]] to be with someone who truly loves her. Anais [[TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry is envious]] of her sister and longs to have sex herself, but is less of a romantic and claims she wants to lose her virginity to a “nobody” to just get it over with. Anais can only lurk, seething in the background, as Elena carries out a torrid affair with and eventually does lose her virginity to Italian exchange law student Fernando (Libero De Rienzo) in front of her.
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7	The film is notable for its themes of teenage sexuality, graphic sexual scenes (there is one uncensored shot of Fernando putting a condom over his erect penis)[[note]]a prosthetic was used[[/note]], and for its ending.
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9	A major theme in the film is whether it is better to lose your virginity to someone you love or to someone you don't.
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11	Critical consensus would seem to hold that this is Creator/CatherineBreillat's best film.
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13	!!This film provides examples of:
14	* AllWomenAreLustful: Neither Anais nor Elena are sixteen, yet constantly [[HormoneAddledTeenager have sex on the brain]].
15	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: A ''very'' dark example. [[spoiler:Anais thinks it's better to lose your virginity to "nobody" just so you can get it over with. She ends up getting raped by an unnamed axe murderer.]]
16	* BigEater: Anais eats more than anyone else, which several other characters comment on.
17	* BoyfriendBlockingDad: Anais's father is clearly suspicious of Fernando, and as soon as he learns he's given Elena a ring (which wasn't even his to give away, no less), he immediately has the girls brought home so that he can ascertain whether or not she's still a virgin. [[spoiler:Not that she ever makes it home.]]
18	* DiabolusExMachina: [[spoiler:The axe murderer, who comes in out of nowhere at the end to kill Elena and her mother before raping Anais.]]
19	* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Anais's mother and sister are murdered in a shocking and random act of violence, and Anais herself is raped. TheEnd.]]
20	* DullSurprise: [[spoiler:Anais's reaction to an axe murderer breaking the windshield and killing Elena is to continue chewing her snack and stare at the murderer with a dull expression. When the murderer moves on to strangle her mother, her expression doesn't change either and she simply gets out of the car. She is also fairly nonchalant about the ensuing rape, so much so that even the attacker seems caught off-guard.]]
21	* {{Euroshlock}}: Graphic sex and a DownerEnding full of murder.
22	* {{Foreshadowing}}: As Anais throws up on the side of the road during the car ride back home, Elena angrily wishes their mother was dead, and that she didn't care if she herself died too. When Anais tells her to speak for herself, Elena assures her that she has nothing to worry about, as she's not in the dead man (passenger) seat. [[spoiler:Elena and their mother end up dying, while Anais, in the backseat, survives.]]
23	* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Anais and Elena have a love-hate relationship and butt heads over sex and relationships.
24	* HeavySleeper: Seriously, Elena and her mother are really slow on the uptake [[spoiler:when an axe murderer breaks the windshield and starts attacking them.]]
25	* HiddenDepths: Although Anais is the younger sister, at times she can be more realistic and sensible than Elena. When Elena excitedly shows Anais the opal ring Fernando gifted to her, Anais is skeptical and surmises there must be some kind of catch.
26	* JerkAss: Fernando.
27	* LeaveTheCameraRunning: As typical {{Euroshlock}}, there are plenty of long, static scenes.
28	* MaleFrontalNudity: If you're too squeamish to see an adult guy's penis, don't watch the movie.
29	* MoodWhiplash: Although it wasn't exactly light and fluffy before, the scene of Anais' mother and sister [[spoiler: getting brutally murdered]] in their car was quite different in tone from everything up until that point.
30	* ParentalObliviousness: The parents don't seem to be all that involved in their daughters' lives. They are particularly cruel to Anais about her weight and eating habits. The father is a [[MarriedToTheJob workaholic]] who leaves the vacation early when something work-related comes up.
31	* PottyFailure: Anais wets herself [[spoiler:as the axe murderer kills her mother.]] It's about all the appropriate reaction she gets during the scene.
32	* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler:Anais ends up losing her virginity via rape at the end of the film.]]
33	* SexInASharedRoom: To be with Elena, Fernando sneaks into the room Elena shares with Anais. Anais pretends to be asleep during the encounters, but she is very much awake.
34	* SiblingYinYang: Elena is the conventionally attractive knockout who idealizes romance. Anais is the awkward kid sister, but at times shows more maturity than Elena and is not as gullible.
35	* SliceOfLife: Until the last ten minutes of the film, it's all about the sisterly relationship between Elena and Anais and their views on love and sex.
36	* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: After an entirely SliceOfLife plot, Anais's mother parks at a rest stop to get some sleep. Elena goes to the bathroom while Anais has a snack, and the two trade sympathies before Elena also naps. [[spoiler:Then an axe murderer breaks through the window and kills both Elena and the girls' mother.]] [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer No, really.]]
37	* ThirdWheel: Anais has no choice but to tag along on Elena's outings with Fernando, which makes for an awkward experience.
38	* VomitIndiscretionShot: Anais throws up at the side of the road near the end of the film.

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