Blame It on Fidel (La Faute a Fidel) (2006)
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Reviews Counted: 45
Fresh: 42 | Rotten: 3
Blame it on Fidel is a charming comedy of manners, class, and politics, elevated by a remarkable performance from lead child actor Nina Kervel.
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Critic Reviews: 16
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 1
Blame it on Fidel is a charming comedy of manners, class, and politics, elevated by a remarkable performance from lead child actor Nina Kervel.
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When her wealthy parents are suddenly motivated to take an overtly political stance as massive political and economical change sweeps through France, the daughter of a wealthy Spanish lawyer and a successful French journalist attempts to make sense of her once-stable world as everything she thought she ever knew is turned upside down. Anna (Nina Kervel) is a nine-year-old Catholic schoolgirl who excels in catechism class and knows how to hold a knife and fork while cutting her fruit. Her father,
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Cast
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Nina Kervel
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Julie Depardieu
Marie -
Stefano Accorsi
Fernando -
Martine Chevallier
Grandmother -
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Marie-Noelle Bordeaux
Filomena -
Benjamin Feuillet
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Olivier Perrier
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The young heroine is rather humorless, but Gavras's intelligence and skillful touch are evident throughout.
Top CriticBlame it on Fidel! is a knowing lesson in film and history that often makes its serious point with a dose of wise humor.
A deft, original, entertaining and thoughtful look at that moment when we realise the world's just that bit more complicated than we thought.
The film contains a surprising amount of understated humor.
It's all too easy to read Blame It On Fidel as a simple morality tale, an allegory comparing conservatism to childishness, and political awakening to emotional maturity.
Politics -- hardly a movie audience's immediate choice when it comes to entertainment -- becomes a deeply engaging subject in Blame It on Fidel thanks to a 9-year-old charmer who steals our hearts.
It offers a coming-of-age tale told unflaggingly from the point of view of a pouting, humorless and unsympathetic nine-year-old.
Strange, bearded house guests shake up a peeved little girl's life, infusing it with political imagination and wonder.
Gavras maintains a light touch throughout that allows us a rare chance to emphasize with both the radical and conservative elements at the family dinner table.
Strange, bearded house guests shake up a peeved little girl's life, infusing it with political imagination and wonder.
A wry and observant film with plenty of understated humour.
A smashing, funny and politically sophisticated feature debut from Julie (daughter of Costa) Gavras.
The comedy always feels enriching rather than demeaning.
French director Julie Gavras neatly side-steps the cliches of 70s radicalism with her terrific debut.
Gavras is an experienced maker of documentaries, but this assured, intelligent film marks an auspicious beginning to her career in fictional features.
A smart, amusing take on some serious issues that's fortunate in its excellent young leading lady and its ability to laugh at its own political excesses.
What makes this film a real gem is Kervel's brilliant performance, personifying this stage of growing up with a perfect balance of bratishness, bright intellect, humour and innocence. She's a revelation.
Cleaving to a child's-eye-view of a time of significant social change, documentarist-turned-feature director Julie Gavras elicits excellence from Kervel as the stubborn schoolgirl struggling to deal with the lack of certainties in her new lifestyle.
Illuminating, witty and touching, Blame it on Fidel is a gem just awaiting discovery.
A little gem with a wonderful performance from little Nina Kervel.
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Foreign Titles
- Blame It On Fidel (UK)
- La Faute à Fidel (FR)
