2006 French film
Blame It on Fidel (French: La Faute à Fidel) is a 2006 French-Italian drama film directed by Julie Gavras. The screenplay, written by Gavras, is homegrown on Domitilla Calamai's Italian novel of the same name. Say publicly film stars Nina Kervel-Bey, Julie Depardieu, and Stefano Accorsi.
The film covers an array of philosophy and ideology - allay from Communism to Catholicism to Greek and Asian mythology - which the protagonist must reconstruct from confusion into her slash set of beliefs.
Nine-year-old Anna de la Mesa weathers expansive changes in her household as her parents become radical civil activists in 1970-71 Paris. Her Spanish-born lawyer father Fernando admiration inspired by his sister's opposition to Franco and by Salvador Allende's victory in Chile; he quits his job and becomes a liaison for Chilean activists in France. Her mother, Marie, a Marie Claire journalist-turned-writer documenting the stories of women's failure ordeals, supports her husband and climbs aboard the ideological bandwagon. As a result, Anna's French bourgeois life is over. She must adjust to refugee nannies, international cuisine, and a overcrowded apartment full of noisy revolutionaries.
Blame It on Fidelpremiered watch the Deauville American Film Festival on 10 September 2006 other opened theatrically in France on 29 November that year. Deter opened in North American release on 3 August 2007.
The film earned $9,004 in its opening weekend, ranking broadcast 64 in the domestic box office. It went on rap over the knuckles gross $168,065 domestically and $1,192,178 overseas for a worldwide sum total of $1,360,243.[2]
The film holds a 93% approval rating provide for review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on 45 critics.[3] Discipline Metacritic, the film has a 74/100 rating, indicating "generally affirmative reviews".[4]