Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Blame it on Fidel

This French film came out in 2006. It is a very personal story. No one could know the soul of a child in that amount of detail, without having lived that particular childhood. There is no research that can make up for truth. And this film is truthful.
It is a story of a highly intelligent little girl, who's parents decide to become left wing political activists in Paris, during the '70s. Among very bourgeois ideas, there are a few very idealistic points of view. All in all, this little girl struggles to understand the changes her parents produce in her life and she also struggles with understanding grown up world. She makes up the parts she can't grasp and she asks very profound questions. In the process she's growing up. She learns about the making of the world from refugee nannies and in the same train of thought she is very secure in her knowledge about where babies come from. Nannies tell her stories from Greek and Chinese mythology, caressing her childish face. Next minute, she ponders things like: "How do you know the difference between solidarity and sheep that fall of the cliff?"
She struggles to fit in at school, she's an overachiever limited in her thirst for knowledge, by her parents' activities.
The imdb profile is here.

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