Quién Diablos Es Juliette?
The answer to the question posed in the title is simple. Juliette is a lively and pretty Cuban girl. She is sixteen and lives in Havana. When she was a baby, her father left for the United States hoping that the mother and daughter would follow. However the mother committed suicide and Juliette, brought up by her grandmother, ended up in tourist prostitution. The cheerful and intelligent survivor Juliette claims she doesn't want to see her father, but it is obvious to everyone that she does. Then Juliette meets Fabiola, a model with green and melancholy eyes who comes to act in a music video in Havana. Juliette's striking likeness to Fabiola is the reason why she was also hired for the video. The two women become friends at first sight. It becomes apparent that Fabiola does not know her father either. Fabiola arranges an appointment for Juliette with her Mexican agent, while she leaves for New York where Juliette's father lives. (Festival information, Rotterdam 1998)
As a result of an independent cinematographic research between documentary film, video clip and fiction, the young director succeeded in creating an intensive interaction between the leading actresses and the audience. The story of Juliette and Fabiola comes from a country in crisis, forced to submit to the laws of the market, and challenges us to challenge this model of society - and ours as well. Their complicity, born of hope and revolt, enables the two women to intuitively search for different social roles from those of the object-woman in whom others want them to be imprisoned. (Foto: Pegasos Filmverleih)