Seamless and energetic, BLAME IT ON FIDEL comes direct to Australia fresh from its international premiere at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Featuring substantive yet buoyant performances by Julie Depardieu and Stefano Accorsi, the secret of the film’s success is that first-time director Julie Gavras, daughter of militant filmmaker Costa Gavras (Z, Missing), just might be speaking from experience!
This charming coming-of-age drama is the tale of a young whip-smart girl who must assimilate cataclysmic changes when her parents decide to devote themselves full time to radical activism.
It is 1970, and nine-year-old Anna’s father is fighting to redistribute wealth in Chile, while her mother doggedly researches a book on women’s abortion ordeals. Meanwhile Anna must adjust to refugee nannies with strange cooking habits, a cramped apartment filled with noisy revolutionaries, and the humiliation of no longer being allowed to attend her beloved catechism class. The fun of BLAME IT ON FIDEL is watching Anna (eloquently portrayed by Nina Kervel) valiantly sort through the dizzying array of contradictory ideologies flying at her-from communism to Greek Mythology - and her gradual internalisation of what her parents, albeit clumsily, are trying to accomplish. It’s a jewel of a film.
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France/Italy 2006 - Drama (98 mins)
In French with English Subtitles
Director: Julie Gavras
Script: Julie Gavras
Cast: Julie Depardieu, Nina Kervel, Stefano Accorsi
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