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August 03, 2005
¿Quién Diablos es Juliette?
(Eng: Who the Hell is Juliette?) This is a charming little mock-mocumentary (!) by Mexican music video director Carlos Marcovich.
The best summary I've found is here.
The film makes Cuba look very appealing, Italian sex tourists very much not (they look like the Germans in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, except noisier). It's a very reflexive and self-referential film about the life of a Havana teenager he met and cast while filming a video there. Features everybody as themselves, in particular 16-yr. old Juliette Ortega and her family and the gorgeous Mexican model Fabiola Quiroz.
I used to understand some Spanish. Man, those Cubans talk fast!
I watched it while halfway through the novel Dreaming in Cuban. It took me a long time to get into the book; the film propelled me into it more deeply, I think, and I ending up liking the novel in the end.
Posted by John at August 3, 2005 12:22 AM
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Have you read Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban boy?
It's pretty good. The author is currently a history professor at Yale. I was about to tell you it's funny... which it is... but it's one of those things where it's only funny if you come from the culture... I'm not sure if you'll get all of the jokes (there have been a few things in the book that have left me scratching my head as my fam is from Puerto Rico not Cuba... but often times that is close enough).
How do you feel about sensory ethnography?
Posted by: Illiana at August 12, 2005 06:41 PM
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