2006 · history · drama · political
Blame It on Fidel!
Directed by Julie Gavras1h 39m2006
A 9-year-old girl weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris.
Our read: Blame It on Fidel! (2006) reads as a warm, steady, grounded history · drama · political entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle history / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender.
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