Blame It on Fidel
by Julie Gavras
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Actor: Benjamin Feuillet, Julie Depardieu, Martine Chevallier, Nina Kervel-Bey, Stefano AccorsiDirector: Julie Gavras
Brand: Koch International
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: French (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-06
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Koch Lorber Films
Movie Reviews of Blame It on Fidel
Movie Review: Satisfying moral/political tale!
Summary: 5 Stars
I ended up loving this film. I wasn't sure exactly where it was going at first, as it views political ideology from a child's perception of different adults' contradictory messages. Others have done a better job of describing the film; I can only say that it is an extremely well done and entertaining film with a heart-warming message! Loved it.
Summary of Blame It on Fidel
IN THEATRES AUGUST 3 2007 (Limited) Young actress Nina Kervel makes her debut in this French film set in 1970. Kervel plays Anna a nine-year-old girl whose normal life is thrown into chaos by the arrival of her communist relatives. Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 741952312994 Manufacturer No: KLF-DV3129Warm-hearted and even-handed, this sly political satire centers on Anna (Nina Kervel-Bey), a nine-year-old French girl accustomed to comfort and routine. In 1970, when her attorney father, Fernando (Stefano Accorsi), takes in his Spanish refugee sister, Anna's tightly-conscripted world starts to unravel. The process accelerates when he and her journalist mother, Marie (Julie Depardieu, daughter of G?rard), take a fact-finding trip to Chile. Upon their return, Fernando has a beard--just like Fidel Castro--and both have embraced activism. This necessitates a move from bourgeois house to proletariat apartment as they dedicate their lives to the disenfranchised. It also means less time for Anna and her urchin-cute brother, Fran?ois (Benjamin Feuillet). She decides "Fidel is to blame." Still, things could be worse. They may be opposed to it, but her parents allow her to continue attending private school, though her father jokes she's a "little mummy," i.e. Chilean slang for reactionary. (He also believes Mickey Mouse is a fascist.) In adapting Domitilla Calamai's novel, documentary filmmaker Julie Gavras, daughter of left-wing director Costa-Gavras, presents her first feature from a child's perspective, but that doesn't mean she takes Anna's side. Just as Anna can't see the good in altruism--or tell the difference between conformity and solidarity--her family's plunge into radical politics is understandably upsetting (especially when they take her to a demonstration that turns violent). And yet, by not following them blindly, Gavras suggests that Anna is a rebel, too. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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