Danish teenager Lea (played with remarkable maturity by Marie Helweg Augustsen) learns a lot more at a summer fat camp than just how to eat balanced meals and exercise right in Weightless , an audacious but sensitive feature debut from director Emilie Thalund.

Some viewers will immediately spot the plot’s bare-bones similarity to Ulrich Seidl’s 2013 work Paradise: Hope , not to mention Catherine Breillat’s Fat Girl and many another explorations of teens with low self-esteem discovering sexual desire in themselves and others. However, Thalund and screenwriter Marianne Lentz imbue the set-up with a fresh 2025 perspective while attuning the material to a very particular Danish frequency in a society perpetually triangulating between child-centric educational approaches, permissiveness

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