It's 1970 in Paris and 9-year-old Anna (Nina Kervel-Bey), whose father, Fernando (Stefano Accorsi) is a Spanish lawyer and mother, Marie (Julie Depardieu,) writes for magazines, is about to have her world knocked on its ear - though her younger brother François (Benjamin Feuillet) is young enough to just go along with the adventure.
Anna's world changes with the arrival of her widowed aunt Marga (Mar Sodupe) and cousin Pilar (Raphaëlle Molinier). Her uncle was killed fighting Franco in Spain. This shakes Anna's parents out of their middle class complacency and makes them take a look at their lives.
Marie becomes a women's rights activist who is fighting the 1920 anti-abortion law and Fernando takes even bigger steps. He quits his job and starts working for Chili and Allende. The family moves to a smaller house which always seems to be full of communist Chilean exiles.
This really shakes up Anna whose Cuban nanny told her that Communists are bad, red men with beards. She slowly comes to terms with the changes in her world when she takes a liking to three of the Chileans (who explain Communism to her with oranges in a side-splittingly funny scene) and when her school friend comes to visit and is appalled that Anna now lives in a small apartment without a garden and they eat strange food (the nanny is Vietnamese at this point).
At the end of the film, in September 1971, Anna is still a spoiled princess, but one who is learning that the world is not centered on her.
I was delighted by this movie.
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