[Marxism] "Blame it on Fidel" (2006)

[Sayan Bhattacharyya]

By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: August 3, 2007

Julie Gavras's wonderful film, "Blame It on Fidel," is a deeply
political movie that sidesteps strident polemics by viewing the
ideological conflicts within a French-Spanish family through the eyes
of a smart, willful child. As the daily life of 9-year-old Anna (Nina
Kervel) is drastically revised after her parents, Fernando and Marie
de la Mesa, suddenly become radicals, she resists change with the
ferocious determination of a youngster who is told that she must part
with her favorite toys.

The movie, adapted from a novel by the Italian writer Domitilla
Calamai and set in France, begins in 1970 and spans Anna's school
year, then leaps to 1973. It perfectly recreates the excitement of a
time when many in the bourgeoisie forsook comfortable lives to dive
headlong into radical activism. [...]

Full: <http://movies.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/movies/03fide.html?ref=movies>