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Written by Swiss playwright Friedrich Durrenmatt during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the play takes place in a world where “technology and information can end everything in a single moment...
...tracing the journey of Guevara from restless child of the upper middle class to abettor of the Cuban revolution, the movie runs into dead ends of sentiment (the little people Che bonds with include a gorgeous leper) and nearly sinks in bathos (he swims a wide river for one last visit to the leper colony). It's all to demonstrate the radicalizing of a guerrilla hero. "We wanted to show where Che came from and where he was going," García Bernal says. "So finding the tone was very delicate, like fine embroidery." Certainly his participation is faultless. He brings...
...Widowed in 1960, the next year she married her first husband's college roommate, newspaper columnist Joseph Alsop (whom she divorced in 1978). President Kennedy visited their home on Inauguration night, and again in 1962 to meet with two Soviet experts just before the showdown with Moscow over the Cuban missile crisis...
...myth, Salles has made a man out of Che Guevara. The only glimpse of where the man is headed comes when Granado thinks aloud about the options for peaceful revolution. "A revolution without guns?" Guevara says. "It'll never work." That he would go on to help lead the Cuban revolution, be killed in Bolivia and become one of the most influential communist figures of all time is left for a blurb at the end. The Motorcycle Diaries isn't about greatness - it's about the potential for greatness. And this magical film is a far higher tribute than...
...That mix is best encountered at La Refuge, tel: (223) 223 3799. It has no street address, so taxi drivers might have trouble finding it. So listen out for the chocolate-smooth, Cuban rumba drifting out from the rutted lanes, a stone's throw from the Rue N'Tomicorobougou. At La Refuge, in a courtyard lit by a lone fluorescent strip, middle-aged couples dance beneath a huge Sahelian moon. Neighborhood goats wander past. And a Malian band, replete with tom-tom, lilting flute and wheelchair-bound keyboardist, will likely be crooning in Portuguese about "Comandante Che Guevara...