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Fat People is pizza, ice-cream, chocolate, sweets, calories, many many calories. It’s also guilt, desire, fear, hope, dreams, sex, family, love… It’s happy, optimistic, awesome, sour, tender, harsh, light, deep. It’s a comedy. It’s a drama. It’s a collection of contradictions. It’s life!

Fat People is a dramedy. Five stories that deal with overweight in a common environment: group therapy. A place where people don’t expect to lose weight but rather find out the reason why they’ve gained it. They expect to find out the reasons why they don’t like their bodies. Weight is unimportant, their bodies are unimportant. Overweight is just a metaphor to talk about those things we swallow, day after day, and that grow inside of us. Those things that are so hard to express, face or even accept. —Transilvania International Film Festival

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Daniela

18Jan12

Started out funny but lost it's steam rather quickly. I'm not a huge fan of narratives that split between multiple characters : /

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Nádia Costa

25Dec11

Nice shot on human contradictions with lots of humor, clever and inspiring way of portraying sorrows, bitterness and frustrations! I really enjoyed it!

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sushkov

24Oct10

A soap opera, a crazy one!

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VIVA 2011: GORDOS (FAT PEOPLE) review

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
Daniel Sánchez Arévalo’s Gordos (Fat People) is a great film, but not because it resists the easy joke or gross-out gag. It embraces them, and turns what could have been a simple comedy drama – why do
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