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DISFIGURED
USA, 2007, 96 MIN
DIRECTED BY GLENN GERS
Southeast Premiere
Lydia is a charming and confident overweight woman who belongs to a “fat acceptance” group that’s just a bit too unaccepting for her easy style. Along comes Darcy, a recovering anorexic who wants to join the group. Darcy sees herself as fat even if no one else in their right mind does, and wants to learn to accept her appearance. What she doesn’t say is that she’s pretty much starving herself and is reaching out for help. Lydia and Darcy fall into a rich, unlikely friendship. Even when Lydia starts a sexual relationship with Bob, an attractive overweight man, the real relationship is between the women. When Lydia asks Darcy for “anorexia lessons” and tries to get her to give up some of her stringent self-control, the truth and the pain explode to the surface. Unflinchingly honest and quite funny in spots, Disfigured is ripe for a time when the touchy topical issue of body image is so prevalent, showing the nuanced nature of self-love and judgment and how personal evolution is sometimes a bit more complex than “just doing it.”