Blame it on Fidel

Blame it on Fidel

Infobox Film
name = La Faute à Fidel


image_size =
caption = "Blame it on Fidel" poster
genre = Drama
director = Julie Gavras
producer = Sylvie Pialat
Mathieu Bompoint
music = Armand Amar
cinematography = Nathalie Durand
editing = Pauline Dairou
distributor = Koch-Lorber Films
released = September 10, 2006 (France)
August 3, 2007 (USA)
runtime = 99 min.
country = FRA / ITA
language = French
website =
imdb_id = 0792966

"Blame it on Fidel" (original French title: "La Faute à Fidel") is a 2006 French drama film directed by Julie Gavras.

Plot summary

A 9-year-old girl, Anna de la Mesa (played by Nina Kervel), weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris. Her Spanish-born lawyer father Fernando (played by Stefano Accorsi) is inspired by his family's opposition to Franco and Salvador Allende's victory in Chile; he quits his job and becomes a liaison for Chilean activists in France. Her mother, a Marie Claire journalist-turned-writer documenting the stories of women's abortion ordeals, supports her husband and climbs aboard the ideological bandwagon. As a result, Anna's French bourgeois life is over. She must adjust to refugee nannies, international cuisine and a cramped apartment full of noisy revolutionaries.

The film is filled with a dizzying array of philosophy and ideology - everything from Communism to Catholicism to Greek and Asian mythology - which Anna must reconstruct from confusion to her own set of beliefs. As she negotiates her way through this ideological maze until ultimate internalisation of her parents' admirable (albeit ad-hoc administered) objectives, we are exposed to a witty analysis of stereotyping, misinformation, the potential hypocrisies of ideologies and the potential false hopes of idealism.

Awards

"Blame it on Fidel" won the MPA's Michel D'Ornano Prize for a promising first French film.

Premieres

The film had its New York City premiere on August 3, 2007.

References

External links

*imdb title|792966
* [http://www.ioncinema.com/news.php?nid=1117 IONCINEMA.com interview with Julie Gavras]


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