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...line was the Argentinean film ?The Motorcycle Diaries,? directed by Walter Salles (an Oscar-winner for ?Central Station?) and starring the current hot boy of international cinema, Gael Garcia Bernal. It is the story of a northbound trip the young Ernesto Guevara (Garcia Bernal) and his friend Alberto Grenado (Rodrigo de la Serna) took from Argentina through Latin America on an old Norton 500 motorbike in 1952. The film was meant to show the burgeoning social awareness of the two men, one of whom became Che the guerrilla, the other a doctor in Havana. But all it proved was that...
Would that Valentin had a touch of that strangeness. Played by relentlessly adorable Rodrigo Noya, 8-year-old Valentin lives in 1960s Buenos Airesdeserted by his mother, ignored by his philandering father and boarding with his cranky, sickly grandma. Eventually, he more or less invents a family to attach himself to. But this is not The 400 Blows. Director-writer Alejandro Agresti flat out denies the implicit--and, yes, existential--terrors of this child's desperately improvised life. Agresti's just out to give us a sentimental good time. Which some people, heaven help us, will have--while the rest...
...repeatedly of just how much the characters once had, and asking us to decide how much they’ve lost through the death of others. How much they’ve gained, on the other hand. The film’s beautiful cinematography at the hands of Rodrigo Prieto juxtaposes heart-wrenching scenes with visions of birds framed against a dusky sky—images of life and death, of beauty and its counterpart. The film’s ending leaves us pondering death’s contradictory tokens, while Penn’s voice echoes insistently...
...ordered it, he would have been dead already in the first attempt." RODRIGO DUTERTE, mayor of Davao City, Philippines, denying involvement in the murder of journalist Juan Pala who had survived three previous attempts on his life...
...Philippines," reads a sign at the Davao International Airport. It's a bit of a stretch, given that Davao is the largest metropolis on Mindanao, the perennially troubled southern Philippine island. But in some ways Davao was indeed an oasis of peace in a troubled region. Tough-talking Mayor Rodrigo Duterte's official policy was that everyone was welcome in his city?even Islamic separatists and communist rebels?as long as they didn't indulge in violence or mayhem. Anyone in Davao who stepped out of line was dealt with ruthlessly?and, for the past decade, Duterte's policy worked...