Word: bolivia
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...field work has taken me all over the world - to Thailand, Bolivia, Peru. So I was surprised to be confronted by an unidentifiable species while having a sandwich in the museum's garden," Barclay says...
...Part 1, our asthmatic hero helps Fidel Castro defeat the Batista forces in the 1958 battle of Las Mercedes; in Part 2, he fails to bring revolution to Bolivia, and pays with his life. Numerous scenes of him instilling military discipline are leavened by occasional celebrity cameos (including an implausible visit from Matt Damon). At the end the viewer is left wondering why the film omitted important elements of Guevara's biography - his supervising of hundreds of executions in the first year of the regime; his break with Castro; his war year in Africa; his wives and children...
...Steven Soderbergh's four-and-a-half hours detailing of Ernesto Guevara's two rebel campaigns in Cuba and Bolivia, was denied the Palme d'Or many expected, but Benicio del Toro, the film's indefatigable star, was named Best Actor. The Best Actress award went to Sandra Corveloni, who played the pregnant single mother trying to keep her poor family together in the Brazilian Linha de Passe, directed by Walter Salles and Daniela Thompson. At the ceremony, Thompson revealed that Corveloni was herself pregnant and had just lost the child. She said the award would be balm...
...tell and, dammit, that's the movie he'd show here. So the running time is not the problem of this honorable, doomed effort; it's that so many scenes are repetitions of earlier ones. Che has to instill military discipline in his ragtag rebels in Cuba, then in Bolivia; in both places he has to decide whether to accept underage volunteers; in both, he gives his men a chance to quit before the decisive battles, where they are fired on by unseen regular soldiers and suffer the deaths of friends who've made their big speech or poignant impression...
Occasionally, the film is enlivened by the guest appearances of familiar actors, sometimes cast appropriately (Lou Diamond Phillips as Mario Monje, Catalina Sandina Moreno as Che's second wife), sometimes not (Matt Damon as a negotiator in Bolivia!?). But the major burden falls on its star, who as one of the producers has nurtured the project for almost a decade. And Del Toro - whose acting style often starts over the top and soars from there, like a hang-glider leaping from a skyscraper roof - is muted, yielding few emotional revelations, seemingly sedated here. Except for one thrilling confrontation...