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Aro Recommended Blame it on Fidel!

 

aka: La Faute à Fidel!
France 2006, 99 minutes
Dir. Julie Gavras
In French with English subtitles
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Drama / History

Topics: Rites-of-passage, Politics.

 

Aroview: A warm, wise and wryly observed evocation of a child's accelerated maturation in the midst of early 1970s social and political upheaval, Nina Kervel-Bey is revelatory as the precocious daughter of bourgeois French parents, who adopt communist politics in the wake of a relative's refugee flight from Franco-led Spain.

Directed with empathetic yet unsentimental confidence by Gavras (daughter of the renowned Costa), this belies its breezy tone with a shrewd, even-handed articulation of personal and political friction between a naively stubborn child and her idealistic parents. A superbly acted, modestly profound gem.

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