RECOMMENDED Julie Gavras’ gentle comedy of politics in a Parisian household in the early 1970s from a child’s point of view, “Blame It On Fidel,” is sweetly observed, largely because it’s pitched within a small frame of time in which many things happened in post-1968 Paris. Petitions and marches are on to legalize abortion, DeGaulle dies, Salvador Allende is elected president of Chile. The small girl’s parents leave their jobs at Marie Claire magazine to help the very left, very idealist Allende get elected. Little Nina Kervel’s features elegantly register both confoundment and consternation. While not as “Political” with a capital “P” as the work of her father, Costa, Gavras’ work is seductively sweet and gratifyingly smart. 98m. Widescreen. (Ray Pride) MUSIC BOX
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