Blessed by Fire Director Turns to Che
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Argentine director Tristán Bauer won the best feature award at this year's Tribeca Film Festival with the searing Blessed by Fire. The film is an examination of the Falkland Islands War through the eyes of an Argentine solider who fought in the conflict, and has had a powerful effect on virtually everyone who has seen it (including our own Christopher Campbell). For his next project, though, Bauer is moving in a different direction -- he'll be helming a documentary about the Argentina-born revolutionary, Che Guevara.According to a report in Variety, the movie will be based on a host of Guevara material currently held by his widow. Among the archived items are "personal letters, photos, writings and other paraphernalia," all of which Bauer will mine for his film, which he says will be "an intimate look at the thinking and the humanity" of the Cuban leader. The hope is that the film will be ready for release sometime next year so, assuming the latest update from Steven Soderbergh still holds, the doc will beat Soderbergh's Che (a fictional look at the figure, starring a creepily well-cast Benicio Del Toro) into theaters by a wide margin.
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5-20-2006 @ 5:41PM
Midichloreans said...
If this film will be displaying Che's "humanity" it's probably fictional as well. But I can't wait to see all the t-shirters out there, half of them think they're wearing some kind of Bob Marley picture and not a murderous dirtball.
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5-20-2006 @ 7:52PM
Frank Falstaff said...
The only resemblance of "humanity" that Ernesto "Che" Guevara ever had, was his egotistical tendency to contradict some of Fidel Castro's public remarks during his (Casto's) infamous multi-houred speeches (actually they were nothing more than communist propaganda from another egomaniac,) eventually Castro had enough of "Che" and gave him the ultmatum along the lines of "either you stop contradicting me, or you get the hell out of Cuba," which led Che to his eventual death in Bolivia.
For those of us that had to suffer through first hand experience the "humanity" of Che and Castro, the constant adulation of these murderers by the "useful idiots" (Vladimir I. Lenin's words) of the West, is tantamount to what the survivors of Hitler's holocaust feel when they see the infamous emblem of Germany's "National Socialist Workers Party" the swastika.
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