Who The Hell Is Juliette?

Well, for starters, her name is actually Yuliet, something the feisty young star of this intriguing new Mexican documentary would like to make perfectly clear. Drop-dead-gorgeous Yuliet Ortega is a Cuban teen who lives with her extended family in a rough Havana barrio. Her mother died when Yuliet was just a child -- she burned herself to death shortly after Yuliet's father decamped for a new life in the U.S. -- and Mexican director Carlos Marcovich's camera follows Yuliet around Havana as she talks candidly about the mother who left her to fend for herself, the father whom she claims to hate, her own life of casual prostitution and her friend Fabiola, a Mexi...