A tight, energetic documentary.
Chevolution (2008)
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:10
Rotten:3
Average Rating:6.1/10
Genre: Education/General Interest
Theatrical Release:18-09-2009
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Gael Garcia Bernal, Che Guevara, Tom Morello
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Gael Garcia Bernal, Che Guevara, Tom Morello
Director: Luis Lopez, Trisha Ziff
Director: Luis Lopez, Trisha Ziff
Reviews for Chevolution
Zippy enough, if a little meandering, and spends equal time on the man and the myth.
Film-makers Trisha Ziff and Luis Lopez ask how and why the wisdom of the crowd decided that this image should not merely be a badge of youth radicalism, but an icon of purity.
This illuminating doc lucidly lays out the history, legacy and legal wrangles surrounding Alberto Korda’s iconic portrait of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara.
Chevolution is punctuated by a few of the more irritating tics that seem to tempt documentarists, but largely remains an informative and balanced history, although it concludes badly.
Revolution is always with us: this week’s guerrilla documentary, watchable and well-researched, is Chevolution.
This intelligent documentary wonders how it happened, and how a hardline Marxist keen on political violence became a marketing tool and patron saint of every vaguely anti-establishment movement on the planet.
Fascinating biography of an image, showing how an artist's work can take on a life of its own.
Even though it gets a little earnest, this well-assembled film is entertaining, lively and packed with scenes and details we've never heard before.
Like the ubiquitous image that it celebrates, this documentary says many things about history, culture and ideology, without ever seeming anything less than clear and compelling.
The pic comes off as too scattershot to do anything but skim the questions it raises about the nature of the image as spiritual beacon and corporate logo.
The Cannes Che, probably a film no one will see again, is a big, sprawling, ambitious mess. It's less a grand-opera mess than a beautifully constructed machine whose parts don't all quite work together.
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