LA FAUTE A FIDEL
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DIRECTOR
Julie Gavras
SCREENPLAY
Julie Gavras, Arnaud Cathrine.
Based on Domitilla Calamai's novel Tutta colpa di Fidel.
CAST
Anna: Nina Kervel-Bey
Marie: Julie Depardieu
Fernando: Stefano Accorsi
François: Benjamin Feuillet
Bonne Maman: Martine Chevallier
Bon Papa: Olivier Perrier
Running time: 99’
Production: France / Italy, 2006
Rating: Not rated
Gauge: 35mm, DVD (color)
GENRE
Drama
DISTRIBUTOR
Koch Lorber Films
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"One of those rare films
that maintain unwavering fidelity to a child's view of the world
(a lineage that includes 'The 400 Blows' and 'Lukas Moodysson's
Together'). It's not [merely] a snapshot of the revolutionary
politics of 1970-71; it's about the upheavals of childhood,
which are timeless and universal."
Tom Beer, Time Out New York |
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Anna is a nine-year old
precocious girl. Her life is rather simple and comfortable,
regulated by habits and order. Her family is wealthy, she goes
to a private religious school and often visits her grandparents
who have a wine estate in Bordeaux. One day, her father's sister
is forced to leave Spain - her husband has just been killed
by Franco's police force. This event is experienced as an electroshock
by Anna's parents and they change their political views radically.
Both become left-wing revolutionaries and Anna's stable life
goes awry. Women's rights, freedom of speech, democracy and
demonstration are now at the forefront of Anna's parents lives.
At first, Anna is not interested in any of it. She strives to
hold on to the comfort she is used to and she is very unhappy
when the family moves to a smaller apartment. She also has to
adapt to her parents' new lifestyle as they have less time to
take care of her. Yet, she also tries to make sense of the larger
political events that shake her life and she does not settle
for the simplistic answers that adults give children.
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