Che: Part One (2008)
Country: US/SP/FR
Technical: col/bw/Panavision 126m
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Benicio del Toro, Demián Bichir, Santiago Cabrera
Synopsis:
In flashbacks from an appearance at the United Nations in New York we follow the progress of Che Guevara as he led a branch of the Castro-headed guerrilla campaign to retake Cuba from Batista's regime during the 1950s.
Review:
An exhaustively detailed and convincing examination of the revolutionary struggle, seen both militarily and politically. The leading character comes over as a man who sticks to his ideals, right up to his closing act of sending a stolen car back the way it had come. Del Toro is superb and Soderbergh contrives to weave a complicated story so that it is compelling; in the final battle over the city we really do feel as if we are there and almost participants in the fight.
Country: US/SP/FR
Technical: col/bw/Panavision 126m
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Benicio del Toro, Demián Bichir, Santiago Cabrera
Synopsis:
In flashbacks from an appearance at the United Nations in New York we follow the progress of Che Guevara as he led a branch of the Castro-headed guerrilla campaign to retake Cuba from Batista's regime during the 1950s.
Review:
An exhaustively detailed and convincing examination of the revolutionary struggle, seen both militarily and politically. The leading character comes over as a man who sticks to his ideals, right up to his closing act of sending a stolen car back the way it had come. Del Toro is superb and Soderbergh contrives to weave a complicated story so that it is compelling; in the final battle over the city we really do feel as if we are there and almost participants in the fight.
Country: US/SP/FR
Technical: col/bw/Panavision 126m
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Benicio del Toro, Demián Bichir, Santiago Cabrera
Synopsis:
In flashbacks from an appearance at the United Nations in New York we follow the progress of Che Guevara as he led a branch of the Castro-headed guerrilla campaign to retake Cuba from Batista's regime during the 1950s.
Review:
An exhaustively detailed and convincing examination of the revolutionary struggle, seen both militarily and politically. The leading character comes over as a man who sticks to his ideals, right up to his closing act of sending a stolen car back the way it had come. Del Toro is superb and Soderbergh contrives to weave a complicated story so that it is compelling; in the final battle over the city we really do feel as if we are there and almost participants in the fight.