Che - L'argentino

When the Revolution Comes, and Goes

“WE only won the war,” Commandante Ernesto Guevara says a couple of hours into the movie that bears his memorable nickname, “Che.” “The revolution begins now.”
Not in this picture, though. Steven Soderbergh's ambitious new film (opening Friday) consists of two parts (each running 131 minutes). The first is set in Cuba, where Guevara helped Fidel Castro overthrow the dictator Fulgencio Batista in a long guerrilla campaign that ended in December 1958; the second takes place in Bolivia, where Guevara went in 1966 to start a revolution that he hoped would spread throughout Latin America (he was Argentine by birth) and where he died a year later. [...]

di Terrence Rafferty, articolo completo (9225 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 7 dicembre 2008