Blame it on Fidel (2006)

[Aspiring Humanist]

A 9-year-old girl, Anna de la Mesa (played by Nina Kervel), weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris. Her Spanish-born lawyer father Fernando (played by Stefano Accorsi) is inspired by his sister's opposition to Franco and by Salvador Allende's victory in Chile; he quits his job and becomes a liaison for Chilean activists in France. Her mother (played by Julie Depardieu) a Marie Claire journalist-turned-writer documenting the stories of women's abortion ordeals, supports her husband and climbs aboard the ideological bandwagon. As a result, Anna's French bourgeois life is over. She must adjust to refugee nannies, international cuisine and a cramped apartment full of noisy revolutionaries.
The film covers an array of philosophy and ideology - everything from Communism to Catholicism to Greek and Asian mythology - which Anna must reconstruct from confusion into her own set of beliefs. As she negotiates her way through this ideological maze and ultimately internalises her parents' well-meant (albeit ad-hoc) objectives, she must deal with stereotyping, misinformation, the potential hypocrisy of ideology and the potentially false hope of idealism.

Has anyone seen this? It looks pretty decent but I don't see how they could narrate that deep of a message through a nine year old girl.

(I'd post a link to the trailer but apparently my post count is too low, it's on youtube)

[The Douche]

I've seen it. It's pretty anti-revolutionary. The moral seems to be in favor of moderation and not getting carried away/swept up in revolutionary ideas, which are inherently futile.

[Aspiring Humanist]

Really? Well thats disappointing

[The Douche]

Its worth a watch I suppose, there are some interesting moments, like where the girl learns a Spanish republican song and her grandfather hears her sing it, so instead he teaches her a francoist song. So she's singing that with a cousin and they start to argue about who are the good guys and who are the bad guys.

[Diello]

Has anyone else seen the film? I got the feeling it was going to be one of those "People who follow high ideals just hypocritical/mindless conformists/etc." films from the trailer, but I'd be interested to know if it had any redeeming virtue.

[Column No.4]

Ive seen it, it was ok but i didnt agree with it very much and it was kind of stale.

[ColonelCossack]

What do nine year olds know? That sounds like the logic of people that defend capitalism using the behavioural traits of 3 year olds...

Havn't seen it, but it sounds like a load of bourgeois claptrap.