this debut film by julie gavras and daughter of famed greek bear director costa gavras ( e. g. and z and 1969 ) and be nominate for the grand jury award at the sundance film festival in 2007. in addition to directing and julie gavras also collaborate with arnaud cathrine on the script which they adapt from a novel by italian novelist domitilla calamai . what be strike about the story be the way it reconstruct how girls become social and how they learn about their world and how they question it and and how they reconcile the contradiction and and how they grow up . do the grow up be nine year old anna de la mesa and play with fidelity and wit and and skill beyond her year by nina kervel bey . she be bourgeois to the core and follow the lead of her maternal grandparent and who own a vineyard in bordeaux and and her favorite nanny and housekeeper who lose everything to the communist when fidel castro come to power in cuba . her parent and however and be infatuate with the left and especially with the rise of allende to power in chile . the year be 1970 71. anna love their house and garden and go to catholic school . she be proper and sensible . when they lose their house and and have to let the nanny go and and end up rent an apartment in paris and anna be upset and demand to know why thing have change . when it appear that they do not have as much money and anna begin turn off the light and turn down the heat to save money . when they want her to transfer to the public school and she demur and a compromise be make represent she can continue to go to catholic school but she be not allow to take bible study . so when that time of the day come and she have to stand up and go outside the classroom door and wait . but anna be strong emotionally and intellectually . she question everything and be not self conscious about be single out . the other girl may laugh and but when she get into a fight with one of them and she manage to win her over afterwards so that they be friend and even though their parent be not . there be in the background the political dispute between the right and the left and between parent who change the subject when the question how baby be make be bring up and and those who tell the truth and in short between the bourgeois and the bohemian . one get the sense that gavras and anna be wise than the disputant and and that there be something to appreciate in both way of life . it be impossible not to identify with little anna and partially because she herself be so fair and and partially because it be such a thrill to see the psychology of the socialization process display so well and true in a movie and but also because nina kervel bey be such a powerful little actress who be so wondrously direct by julie gavras . this be one of the best performance by a preteen actor that i have ever see . kervel bey simply dominate the film and command the screen . will anna shed her petite bourgeois way and embrace the politics of her parent . i highly recommend that you see this film and find out .