“ Once upon a time … Niki lived in a strange world where all around … fleshy … plump … sensual … well, fat girls … were forbidden to cross-dress and were condemned to live naked. It is in these few lines that the short film can be summarized extra wide by Marina Ziolkowski.
Extra large, a dystopia against fatphobia in an anti-Cinderella key
In this dystopia, all women are princesses except the fat ones. There is no prince charming, but there are still men male gauze sharp to dehumanize. Some, police officers, even take it upon themselves to order the striptease of women deemed too fat.
Available for free from July 6, 2022 on YouTubecounts in the cast the activist against grossophobia Barbara Butch who plays the main role of this anti-Cinderella judged by society too fat to go to the prom.
The actress-director Berangere McNeese (Thieves, HPI, good people) plays the character of Anastasie, Cinderella’s half-sister, who here has completely internalized the injunction to thinness and the privileges that can accompany it.
The actress-comedian-screenwriter Rosa Bursztein (Two Me, Fifth Set, Sam) plays the role of the good fairy. But the miracle here won’t be turning a pumpkin into a carriage, or slimming a body with the movement of a magic wand …
A photo credit: Extra Large YouTube screenshot.
Source: Madmoizelle
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