Movie #128 "Blame it on Fidel" is the first movie in this project that I would not rate 3 or 4, but 3.5 because I had mixed feelings about it. There were things I really liked like the history lesson told through the eyes of the child, the overall theme --- a rite of passage where the girl very poignantly shows by the end of the film that she understands more what her family has been going through --- that she gets more unselfish with her life (i.e. older and more mature), the editing and photography. But what I didn't like was the rapid pace of the dialogue and the confusion occasionally with a problem of the actors looking a lot alike --- perhaps it's my bifocal contacts (though I doubt it), but I constantly had trouble figuring out who was whom --- was it the mother or the auntie --- and no one addressed each other by name and if they did, it went way too quickly. So that threw a wrench into what could have been a 4 or 5 star film..................as it was, I found it worth seeing, but not for everyone --------- I wish I knew more about the history behind the film, but it did get me to look some stuff up. Nice history lesson , albeit in the background of a wonderful coming of age film of a little girl living in Paris in the 1970's.
Average rating: 3.702
I would ate it 3.5
Blame It on Fidel
(2006) NR
Nina Kervel-Bey stars as 9-year-old Anna, a privileged young Parisian girl whose orderly, structured life is thrown into turmoil when her parents are drawn into Paris's turbulent and radical 1970s political scene. Julie Gavras (daughter of famed French filmmaker Costa-Gavras) directs this 2007 Sundance Film Festival competition entry.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment