The Life of Juanita Castro (1965) Andy Warhol
Un dramaturgo engaña a una serie de actores para que improvisen una meditación verdaderamente ridícula pero sutilmente significativa sobre Fidel Castro y su familia, en un momento en que, sobre la revolución, se contaban historias inquietantes de ejecuciones y encarcelamientos y, en particular, de odio y de violentas torturas. Ronald Tavel s THE LIFE OF JUANITA CASTRO is one of Andy Warhol s triumphs as a filmmaker. A playwright (Tavel himself) taunts a number of actors into improvising a truly ridiculous but subtlely meaningful meditation on Fidel Castro and his family, at a time when the revolution was bringing back disquieting stories of executions and imprisonments and, particularly, virulent hatred and torture of homosexuals in Castro s Marxist paradise. Hilarious as JUANITA is, it remains a history lesson wherein fascism itself is on display and the audience is encouraged to laughbut with some discomfort.
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