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A Ma Soeur
Film Description Daring, provocative and shocking tale of sibling rivalry, family discord and relationships. Elena is 15 and flirtatious. Her sister, Anais, is 12 and constantly eats. On holiday, Elena meets an Italian student and Anais is forced to observe their clandestine relationship. But their actions have traumatic consequences for the whole family. A touching study of female adolescence with an truly unforgettable ending.
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DVD Extras Widescreen. Filmographies, Tom Dawson film notes, trailers. Region 0.
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Review by John Hoyles on 17th May 2002 Another feminist diatribe from the maker of Romance will not please the politically correct liberals who dictate the taste of the chattering classes. Breillat at her best is always perverse. And some critics have appreciated that A Ma Soeur's nasty ending is not so much a willful deus ex machina as a logical and liberating trope which completes the thesis that even in these enlightened days love in the experience of women is too often indistinguishable from rape. In the long cinema verite sequences of sexual activity we as spectators (or voyeurs) are forced to be complicit in the utterly realistic `lovemaking' between the 15 yearold Elena and the 20 yearold Fernando. Our own sexual desires and behaviour are graphically called into question, aided and abetted by the critical eye of Elena's 12 yearold sister Anais (the eponymous `fat girl'). Breillat comments: `Elena asks Fernando to lie to her, then she actually lies to herself. That need for a myth of love is a mental rape. At 15 there's no loss of dignity in having had sex, but there is a loss of dignity in having to lie.' Whether you accept Breillat's thesis or not, this film is always thoughtprovoking and is guaranteed to shatter the received ideas and illusions of all who have struggled theoretically and practically with that strange conflation of brutality and liberation which characterises sexual politics in our epoch.
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In her lively and literate review of `the works of filmmaker Catherine Breillat', entitled A Matter of Skin (1999), the American critic Kathleen Murphy calls Breillat `a wild child who matured early, a provincial loner steeped in the likes of Sade and Lautream... View article in full
Collections & ListsThis film is part of the following Film Collections
Including: A Clockwork Orange, A Ma Soeur, Audition, Baise-Moi, Birth Of A Nation, Cannibal Ferox, Crash, Dans Ma Peau, Funny Games (1997), Henry - Portrait of a Serial Killer.
Including: A Ma Soeur, American Psycho, An Angel At My Table, Anatomy Of Hell, At Five In The Afternoon, Awakenings, Beau Travail, Beautiful Thing, Bend It Like Beckham, Better Than Chocolate.
Including: 9 Songs, A Ma Soeur, A Short Film About Love, Anatomy Of Hell, Baise-Moi, Black Narcissus, Boogie Nights, Closer, Crash, Empire Of Passion.
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