We meet hundreds of characters, yet beyond a name we know nothing of them. Instead, he apolitically presents Guevara’s two revolutions (leaving out his time in the Congo) in a matter-of-fact, almost documentarian frame. Soderbergh, unlike Salles, is not interested in putting a human face on Guevara. “It is not a psychological study either, and it doesn’t have a political ax to grind on the left or the right, although it can spur viewers to their own researches on Che, the Cuban Revolution, and related issues.” “Unlike David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia or Warren Beatty’s Reds, Soderbergh’s Che is not a hagiography or a romance,” writes film critic Amy Taubin.
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However, while the two parts of Che ( The Argentine and Guerilla), hew more closely to experimental pictures like The Limey and indie flicks like Full Frontal, they both possess the grandiose sweep of Soderbergh’s crown jewel Traffic.īut those expecting the grandiose sweep of big budgeted bio movies with a cast of thousands will be sorely disappointed. Soderbergh may be an odd choice to helm a multi-part epic war film, but looking at his oeuvre, the man has directed just about every type of picture there is. Broken into two parts, the first chronicling Guevara’s success in Cuba and the second his failure in Bolivia, Che eschews the conventions that water down most biopics to present a verité vision of Guevara in action.
Slavish in detail, the nearly five hour film was little seen, but highly praised during its late 2008 release. However, it would take director Steven Soderbergh to put together the filmic version of Guevara’s insurgencies in Che, recently released on DVD by the Criterion Collection. If anything, Salles’ film, based on Guevara’s diaries, put a human face on the revolutionary and documented the seeds of his ideology. In 2004, director Walter Salles put out The Motorcycle Diaries, a film that starred Gael García Bernal as the young Guevara traveling around South America. Jon Lee Anderson’s Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, released in 1997, is a massive tome that almost manically detailed Guevara’s life. Sure, they know he helped the Castro brothers implement the Cuban Revolution, but beyond that notorious symbol of his proud, bearded face looking upwards in stern defiance, how much do people really know?ĭetails beyond the symbol have leaked out into popular culture.
Yet, beyond the image, most people probably know very little about Guevara. Call him the reluctant revolutionary, but his image has been taken and appropriated by rebellious middle class youth and fetching loads of money in ways that would leave the Argentinean spinning in his grave 10 times over.
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