A Ma Soeur! "A Ma Soeur!" ("For my Sister" aka "Fat Girl")
Insight Heaven help us. Has the world gone crazy or didn't I have a large enough dose of sugar with my breakfast cereal. Having seen "A Ma Soeur!" and read the publicists notes I am confused, just as confused as "A Ma Soeur!". Hell, to get anything out of this midless, disjointed piece of french crap you'd have to be "trippin" out. I doubt if I have seen a more wasteful piece of crap all year [but that doesn't mean there isn't something still lurking out there. No, that wouldn't surprise me.]. And that R18+ rating, oh come on. A few seconds of film showing a penis with a condom on it. And the sex scenes. Oh please save me. They [what they think are sex scenes] are just damn woefull. What was everyone from the film company down to the director thinking. I can tell you what I'm thinking. Rated R for rubbish. Rated R for put it in the rubbish bin. Rated R for just plain, horribly bloody rotten. Cinema devotees of french film will most probably come up with R for reject, total reject!! In a world where television is allowed to have the "f..." word at night, where SBS has the most tittilating sex on the box [and shows plenty of that too] this doesn't even qualify as school yard smut. To all those "big" beautiful women out there, I apologize for the other titling of "A Ma Soeur!" which reads "For My Sister" aka "Fat Girl". Leading lady Ana'i's Reboux certainly ain't no fat girl, far from it, there would be plenty of guys who would find here figure comfotably attractive. In light of all the pressures that young women face these days I find it pretty insensitive to to put up a film that says, if your young, slim, beautiful and horny as hell, then you are sure to get laid, but hang on, if you're seen as fat, ugly and a bit of a pig, then the best you can expect is to be dragged off into the scrub by some homicidal maniac and after being thoroughly raped or molested, come out of that experience in total self denial. Why do I bother going on. Save yourself a few precious moments in your life by not bothering with "A Ma Soeur!". Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas have plenty of other good films to fall back on, like "La Spagnola" or "Nurse Betty" both of which represent good value and certainly good entertainment. The Verdict The awful truth is that "A Ma Soeur!" is just bloody awful. Rated R for rotten and deservedly so ... RATED R18+ A film by Catherine Breillat ©2001 - Potential Films - All Rights Reserved