As Anna goes, so goes France! Or something...
A nine year old girl weathers her affluent family's shift toward leftest politics along with the rest of 1970's French youth culture. Little Anna's fear of change manifests in her traditional attitudes towards religion and social class.
Costa Gavras' daughter makes her directorial feature film debut. It's a nice flick. Sometimes honest, sometimes hokey and obvious. It does come dangerously close to equating conservatism with childishness and liberalism with emotional maturity, which even for a leftest like me comes off a little trite. But through it all Nina Kervel-Bey, who plays Anna, is amazing as the (mostly) conservative child in a Allende supporting anti-Franco family. As a scowling little brat, she's aces, but she has real range too.
And her little brother has to be one of the most entertaining young kids I've seen put on film in a while. Worth watching.
A nine year old girl weathers her affluent family's shift toward leftest politics along with the rest of 1970's French youth culture. Little Anna's fear of change manifests in her traditional attitudes towards religion and social class.
Costa Gavras' daughter makes her directorial feature film debut. It's a nice flick. Sometimes honest, sometimes hokey and obvious. It does come dangerously close to equating conservatism with childishness and liberalism with emotional maturity, which even for a leftest like me comes off a little trite. But through it all Nina Kervel-Bey, who plays Anna, is amazing as the (mostly) conservative child in a Allende supporting anti-Franco family. As a scowling little brat, she's aces, but she has real range too.
And her little brother has to be one of the most entertaining young kids I've seen put on film in a while. Worth watching.