Che

I have seen Che in an odd way, at the London Film Festival I manged to see about an hour of the beginning and then an hour of the end, since then I have missed all opportunites to see the two parts back-to-back as all critics seem to recommend, and have been reduced to watching both parts in full about a month apart, while I can't say that I loved these pieces of cinema (and I'm not surue anyone could), it was a fascinating experiment, in the somewhat distanced yet epic storytelling, director Steven Soderbergh has essentially saved Ernesto 'Che' Guevara from the nightmare of a conventional bio-pic, Guevara's life is now thoroughly covered in cinema, yet Soderbergh has resisted the downfalls of transforming a life into a narrative, there is no Oscar baiting here, no molding of events to a genre (though a person sitting behind me did sound like he was watching an action film - 'How is Che going to get out of this one?'), indeed by holding back on so much Soderbergh has crafted a biopic that makes me want to go and find out more on its subject, something I can't say was true of 'Walk the Line' or 'W.', if the performances are kept away from the audience, and the screenplay seems to be a text book, one aspect that can be signaled out for praise is the look of the film, shot on the groudbreaking red camera (http://www.red.com/), the depth and sharpness of the image is stunning, and if you have the opportunity to watch both parts back-to-back, I would say listen to the critics and take it.