¿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.

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