Film Essay À ma soeur! (2001)
Film Essay
À ma soeur! (2001)
À ma soeur! – in english For my Sister aka Fat Girl – it’s Catherine Breillat eight film. Her movies always were very controversial and À ma soeur! is not an exeption. The film is devoted an immortal theme, sexual awakening, and also a theme of first Breillat of the novel L 'Homme facile (1967) and her first film, Une Jeune Fille Vraie 1976. Sexual awakening always were a debate, but never more than in Catherine movies. For Breilla, sexual awakening in hardened an order wild, a disturbing image which pays attention to violence at edges all life. There is no trivial violence it; it threatens the existence of a society. Thus awakening in À ma soeur! is a vision of evil, and Catherine inema is evil cinema.
The film of Brejja investigates intriguing relations of sisters as they approach to a sexual maturity. It represents solidarity and rivalry, jealousy and support which are in the constant conflict in the field of interaction between Anais and Elena. Especially one scene this shows on the foreground. Though Elena, having the the first sexual experience, Anais starts to cry. There are three possible reasons for tears: (1) grief that belief of Anais "about not-romantic character sex as it has been proved correctly, (2) jealousy that her sister endures that she wishes, but is not reached yet, and / or (3) sympathetic reactions to innocence Elena 's loss.
Elena and Anais - sisters. They grow up in a French middle-class family. For summer vacation, they come with their parents. Their father "does not like to leave more than their employees," her mother - housewife. Younger sister - Anais seeks to imitate older: the store chooses the same dress, takes over the gestures and phrases, style of communication. Watching skills sisters in communion with men, who then blurts out rehearsing with a ladder or sunbed by the pool.
Sisters at the same time similar and different both love and hate each other. It seems
À ma soeur! (2001)
À ma soeur! – in english For my Sister aka Fat Girl – it’s Catherine Breillat eight film. Her movies always were very controversial and À ma soeur! is not an exeption. The film is devoted an immortal theme, sexual awakening, and also a theme of first Breillat of the novel L 'Homme facile (1967) and her first film, Une Jeune Fille Vraie 1976. Sexual awakening always were a debate, but never more than in Catherine movies. For Breilla, sexual awakening in hardened an order wild, a disturbing image which pays attention to violence at edges all life. There is no trivial violence it; it threatens the existence of a society. Thus awakening in À ma soeur! is a vision of evil, and Catherine inema is evil cinema.
The film of Brejja investigates intriguing relations of sisters as they approach to a sexual maturity. It represents solidarity and rivalry, jealousy and support which are in the constant conflict in the field of interaction between Anais and Elena. Especially one scene this shows on the foreground. Though Elena, having the the first sexual experience, Anais starts to cry. There are three possible reasons for tears: (1) grief that belief of Anais "about not-romantic character sex as it has been proved correctly, (2) jealousy that her sister endures that she wishes, but is not reached yet, and / or (3) sympathetic reactions to innocence Elena 's loss.
Elena and Anais - sisters. They grow up in a French middle-class family. For summer vacation, they come with their parents. Their father "does not like to leave more than their employees," her mother - housewife. Younger sister - Anais seeks to imitate older: the store chooses the same dress, takes over the gestures and phrases, style of communication. Watching skills sisters in communion with men, who then blurts out rehearsing with a ladder or sunbed by the pool.
Sisters at the same time similar and different both love and hate each other. It seems
Bibliography: A Film Review by Keith Allen,2006, http://www.movierapture.com/amasoeur.htm A Film Review by James Berardinelli, 2001, http://www.reelviews.net/movies/f/fat_girl.html Price, B. (2002), Catherine Breillat, Senses of Cinema, http://www.sensesofcinema.com/ Krisjansen, I. And Maddock, T. (2001), ‘Educating Eros: Catherine Breillat’s Romance as a Cinematic Solution to Sade’s Metaphysical Problem’, Studies In French Cinema 1, pp. 141-9.