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A Dream of Happily Ever After
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March 26, 2019
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4:53Now PlayingHoratio Baltz was in Cuba participating in a filmmaking workshop led by Werner Herzog when he met nine-year-old Maribel. The schoolgirl, from the small, rural town of Pueblo Textil, wanted to tell him about love. Wearing a red uniform with a red bandana tied around her neck, Maribel professed her unrequited affection for a boy named José.
“I always wanted him to tell me that he likes me, that he’s in love with me, that he wants to see me… but he never told me those things, even when we talked,” says Maribel in Baltz’s short documentary, True Love in Pueblo Textil. Maribel dreams of a happily-ever-after future with José, in which the couple travels to Havana to see exciting things. “We’ll get married and all that… and do all the things that people do when they get older.”
At once, the film is a heartening portrait of a young girl’s romanticism and a somewhat disquieting augury of disillusionment. Read more
"True Love in Pueblo Textil" was directed by Horatio Baltz. It is part of The Atlantic Selects, an online showcase of short documentaries from independent creators, curated by The Atlantic.
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