: Unlike the typical "lost" teen, Sabine (played by Mercedes Cecchetto) is defined by a deep, impatient rage against a life she feels is mapped out for her in catering school—a setting she views as a "protective prison". The Adult Gaze

‎‘A Big Girl Like You’ review by Margaret and David - Letterboxd 12 Feb 2003 —

Sabine lives in a provincial French town where she attends a live-in catering school. Bored with her studies and suffocated by a conflictual relationship with her parents—particularly her father, who cynical views life as "shit from A to Z"—she seeks escape through sex and nightlife.