BLAME IT ON FIDEL (2007)

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Plot

It is 1970 and nine-year old Anna is not amused. Seemingly overnight her bourgeois family have decided to abandon their middle class life and transform into leftist radicals. Gone is the grand family pad, gone are the new clothes and, humiliatingly, gone are Anna's beloved religious lessons. In their place is a cramped apartment filled with bearded revolutionaries, demonstrations and refugee nannies with strange cooking habits. But Anna is no wilting flower and before you can regurgitate the first few lines of Marxist ideology she embarks on a revolution of her own. Adapted for the screen and directed by Julie Gavras, "Blame It On Fidel" is a delightful and intelligent satire on the fickleness of us middle class, over educated, under exposed grown ups.