The Life of Juanita Castro
5.8 /10 1 Votes
Duration Country United States | 5.6/10 IMDb Genre Comedy Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1965 Cast Ronald Tavel (Stage director), Isabelle Collin Dufresne , (Juanita Castro), Mercedes Ospina (Fidel Castro), Fayette Hauser Similar movies The Masters of Terror , Democracy Is ... , V for Vendetta , Thank You for Smoking , The Bourne Ultimatum , RoboCop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Life of Juanita Castro (1965) is an American underground film directed by Andy Warhol, filmed in March 1965.
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Plot
A playwright (Tavel) taunts a number of actresses into improvising a play 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 Cuba.
Several of the play's male characters (Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, and Che Guevara) are played by women. The actresses face a camera they believe is filming them, while in fact they are being filmed by another camera placed off to one side. At times they are directed by Tavel to perform pointless acts in unison. According to reviewer Tom Vick, the film "rewrites history as a high-camp farce," poking fun at machismo and totalitarianism.
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References
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