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...conserve cash, Chrysler also was forced to close permanently a factory in Newark, Del. where it was building its only hybrid vehicle, and it has dropped plans for an alliance with Chery, an expanding Chinese auto company, after months of laborious negotiations...
...days later, Soderbergh and his star, Benicio Del Toro, presented Che at the Havana Film Festival. The authorities had warned they would not allow the picture to be shown if it was critical of Fidel Castro, and they found nothing objectionable. (One scene included in the original Cannes Film Festival version of Che, showing Castro the commandante in an ambiguous light, was apparently cut.) "The Cuban public gave its endorsement with a strong ovation," reported Granma, the island's official Communist Party newspaper, which hedged its bets by observing that the Castro character (played by Demian Bichir) lacked "charisma...
...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 priest-negotiator in Bolivia!?). But the major burden falls on its star, who 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, thinking there's nowhere to go but up - is muted, yielding few emotional revelations, seemingly sedated here. Except for one pungent confrontation at the UN between Guevara...
...Laura Bickford, who produced Che with Del Toro, says that the first part (shot in the 2.35:1 scope ratio) is "more of an action film with big battle scenes," and the second part (shot in standard 1.85:1 wide-screen) is "more of a thriller." Actually, neither tag truly applies. Though Part 1 begins by hopscotching from 1955, when Castro and Guevara meet, to later scenes in Havana and New York, the film is far less interested in explaining Guevara's political importance than in showing how he operated in the two big campaigns; its mantra is process...
...dyspepsia of Del Toro's performance is partly due to the bromides he has to enunciate - that the most important quality of a revolutionary is "love," and that he's not a Catholic but "I believe in mankind" - and partly because so little information is vouchsafed about his non-jungle career or his private life. (You're about 100 mins. into Part 1 before Che mentions in passing that he has a wife and child back home.) Halfway through the film he has lost much of the majesty and poignance you might expect of such a character...