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Che - Guerrilla

THAT - GUERRILLA

Steven Soderbergh

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be understood as the operation carried out by Steven Soderbergh's Che Guevara? Two separate films, independent or a single work, broken into two halves? The truth probably lies somewhere in between: on the one hand, the two parties are the decisive moments of the intense life of Che (not Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, whose story was told from the beautiful Walter Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries "), making it a biopic to be uniform over the last decades of the Argentine revolutionary. The other two films but this is very different: whereas the first excelled (in the assembly, in the narrative style), the second turns out to be rather disappointing.
Even the title - Guerrilla - one senses that the games will be different this time: the policy debate (one of the highlights of "The Argentine") disappears from the narrative, the jumping time of the previous film leaves room for a fabula linear and quite simple, also the character of the same That seems to miss the many nuances that had helped to bring out the charm in the first film. Differences somewhat fanciful for a work conceived as a unique film, partly because the Bolivian jungle is not so different from the Cuban Sierra. Perhaps that (and hence the movie) without a complementary character as Fidel Castro loses much of its charm? Certainly the second part of Soderbergh's Castro without going to lose a landmark political imperative to turn into two hours of jungle life, boring, flat, where the dead have the better of the guerrillas and their commander. In addition, the Cuban revolution, useless say, has a charm entirely different from the improbable Bolivian revolution, where Che is an already reported, have already said, have seen and, even worse, not wanted.

"Guerrilla" lacks precisely where "The Argentine" was convincing, leaving us perplexed for a second part, well below expectations, where the end of the master is revealed almost a liberation. In the beautiful "Transamerika" Modena City Ramblers, about the death of Che, said that "reigns in the shadow of the Great Valley." Because of Soderbergh's time to reign in Valley Grande is only boredom.

Alessio Trerotoli

Release of the movie in Italy: 30/04/2009
Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Demian Bichir, Santiago Cabrera, Elvira Mínguez, Jorge Perugorría, Edgar Ramirez, Victor Rasuk, Armando I can, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Rodrigo Santoro, Unax Ugalde, Yul Vázquez, Carlos Bardem, Joaquim de Almeida, Eduard Fernández
Nationality: Spain, France, USA
Year: 2008
Genre: Biography, Drama, War