Steven Soderbergh’s “Che,†recently presented at the Cannes Film Festival, is a four and a half hour long epic about the life of one of the most famous figures in Argentine history, Ernesto “Che†Guevara. Constructed in two parts, the first follows Che’s successful revolutionary campaign with Fidel Castro in Cuba. The second half depicts his campaign in the jungles of Bolivia, where he eventually met his death. Benicio Del Toro plays Che, giving the film star power and giving Che a well developed, sympathetic portrayal. Soderbergh, a famous American director who won the Palme d’Or—the festival’s highest prize—in 1989 for the film “Sex, Lies and Videotape,†perhaps came to the festival hoping for another such win. But the film, whatever its awards, stands on its own.
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[...] Argentine†is a new movie by Steven Soderbergh about Ernesto “Che†Guevara’s life. According to AFP, the film is actually the first half of [...]