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Fat Girl is the powerful and unsettling French movie about adolescent sexuality now coming to theatres in Ontario after an attempt to censor it.

The Ontario Film Review Board banned Fat Girl -- or A Ma Soeur! -- 15 months ago, the only jurisdiction in Canada to do so. But the ban was overturned when the Ontario government finally refused to defend its board in a court challenge launched by the distributors. The film plays in French with English subtitles.
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If it was feminist French filmmaker Catherine Breillat's goal in Fat Girl to make her audiences feel like voyeurs, she has succeeded admirably.

Whether audiences should be witness to the explicit seduction of a 15-year-old virgin is another question altogether.
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