Fresno Filmworks

November 2007

Blame it on Fidel
  • Blame it on Fidel
  • Friday, November 9, 2007
  • 5pm and 8pm
  • The Tower Theatre
  • 815 E. Olive Avenue, Fresno (map)
  • $10.00 General Admission
  • $8.00 for Students and Seniors

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.

Stephen Holden
NEW YORK TIMES

A remarkably assured and elegant debut, Blame it on Fidel is the kind of smart, sophisticated and fiercely humanistic film that all movies should aspire to be, but seldom do.

Carina Chocano
LOS ANGELES TIMES  

A wrenching, funny and wise little picture, with a diva-like junior star at its center.

Andrew O'Hehir
SALON.COM  


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Synopsis

Caught up in the political revolution sweeping France in the early 1970s, Fernando (Stefano Accorsi) and Marie (Julie Depardieu) reject the comforts of their bourgeois life and dedicate themselves full time to radical activism. This comes as a shock to their precocious nine year-old daughter, Anna (Nina Kervel), who struggles to understand her parents’ newfound ideals. Brilliantly told from Anna’s perspective, this critically-acclaimed film by Julie Gavras captures the coming-of-age moment when children realize the contradictions of adulthood and have to make their own choices.

Directed by Julie Gavras
In French, with English subtitles
France, 2006
99 minutes. NR