laura, john and i saw the first film on my french film fest wish list: la faute à fidel (blame it on fidel) and it was fabulous. this is no ordinary coming-of-age film. this is the transition story of nine-year-old anna de la mesa (played by nina kervel-bey) who’s life changes forever when her parents begin an ideological sea-change. her Spanish-born lawyer father fernando (stefano accorsi) isinspired by his family’s opposition to Franco (you later learn he is from a rich catholic royalist family and that his uncle is fighting in spain) and allende’s victory in chile, to quit his job and become a liaison in France for chilean activists. her mother, a marie clare journalist turned writer documenting the stories of women’s abortion…