Blame it on Fidel
(la Faute à Fidel!)
10th December 2008
France 2006.
Cert.12A. 98mins.
Director: Julie Gavras.
Starring: Nina Kervel, Julie Depardieu, Stefano Accorsi.
SPONSOR: The Lincoln Academy.
NOTE: This film is showing at the University of Lincoln in the Architecture building, Room AR0107 at 7.30pm. Entry is free.
Venue map (PDF)
Paris 1970. The nine year old daughter of
affluent, professional couple Marie and
Fernando finds her comfortable daily
routine upset by her parents' new found
political activism. The catalyst is Anna's
Aunt Marga from Spain, come to live with them after the murder of her anti-Franco husband. The subsequent chaos, seen through the eyes of a child, is both poignant and hilarious.
Related films previously shown by the society, (these links will open a new window)
Starring Stefano Accorsi:
2003 -
The Son's Room
Starring Julie Depardieu:
2005 - A Very Long Engagement
"This is an acutely comic film in which the babes and sucklings have all the best lines."
Philip French, The Observer. Full review