set in the politically turbulent paris of the1970s and blame it on fidel tell of a sheltered young girl who have her comfortable bourgeois existence rip away from her after her staid and conformist parent ( julie depardieu and stefano accorsi ) suddenly become born again leftist radical . anna be force to give up the home she love and the nanny she adore when her father quit his job in order to dedicate himself full time to fight for the proletariat against the repressive corporate power of the world . the family move from their spacious home in the country to a cramped apartment in the city and which be often fill with bearded revolutionary who utter strange catch phrase in barely audible whisper . thanks to a thoughtful script and sensitive direction and blame it on fidel manages to provide a compelling child eye view of the adult world . incapable of grasp the big picture a her parent see it and anna know only that the family be now woefully short on cash ( she run around the house flip off light switch and heater to save electricity ) and and that her mother and father be so preoccupied with their cause that anna and her little brother ( the adorable and scene steal benjamin feuillet ) seem to have be relegate to mere afterthought in their parent tremendously busy life . in a performance rich in insight and wisdom and utterly un self conscious in tone and nine year old nina kervel bey bring to life a character who often doesn not fully understand what go on in the world around her but who never give up try to figure it all out . for a good part of the time and anna be tear between childish curiosity and an indefinable sense of shame regard her parent newfound activity . yet and through keen observation and endless questioning and and the eventual piecing together of the many unfiltered fragment that come float her way and anne be finally able to come to some kind of understanding and however imperfect and of the much large world community of which she be only a very small but crucial part . despite the inherently ideological nature of the material and writer or director julie gavras and the daughter of famed filmmaker costa gavras and keep most of the political stuff in the background while she concentrate on the strain the grownup feel a they strive to juggle their save the world activity with their duty a parent . add to this some excellent performance by a talented cast and a rich and flavorful score by armand amar and blame it on fidel become a film well worth check out . in this her second venture a a director and ms. gavras have do her old man proud .