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The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
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"Danny Boyle’s new crowd-pleasing film Slumdog Millionaire was originally intended to be shot entirely in English, but apparently due to the preferences of a casting director, about a third of the movie is in Hindi. While this fraction may not be enough to call it a foreign-language film, it could have been enough to turn off subtitle-fearing audiences were the movie not so otherwise accessible due to its feel-good, “Hollywood-style” story involving star-crossed romance, destiny and an ultimate “love conquers all” message. Also, the movie breaks free from one off-putting foreign film tradition by following Man on Fire, Night Watch and TV’s Heroes into the realm of non-traditional subtitling. Slumdog received a standing ovation at the Toronto Film Festival, where it won the People’s Choice Awa "
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"The Year My Parents Went on Vacation is a movie about many things. It's about the process of growing up. It's about soccer, it's about politics, and it's about judaism. Somehow, all of these elements come together to make a touching movie that's just as beautiful and haunting as other South American politically and culturally charged dramas, such as "The Motorcycle Diaries." Our main character is young Mauro, a 12-year-old sent to live with his grandparents when his own parents flee Brazil's totalitarian regime in 1970, under the pretense of "going on vacation." Upon his arrival, Mauro finds that his grandfather has just died, and it's up to an elderly jewish neighbor, Shlomo, to take care of him. Turns out that Mauro's family is supposed to be jewish, too, but the boy was raised outside of the faith, something Shlomo finds to be highly disturbing. Fortunately, during the course of his stay in Sao Paulo, Mauro forms a sort of family with Shlomo, a group of kids in the building, and ... "
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"Last year at film camp the director brought this film up, and I was very disinterested in the entire idea of it. Things have definitely changed since then, and tonight I got to share the company of myself and Gael Garcia Bernal. I was completely pleased by every aspect of this film. The conflicts these characters are going through are very profound, and had my mind pondering every aspect. I felt all the acting to be solid and every character to have his/her purpose in each scene. I would just like to point out what I thought was probably my personal favorite part of this movie… The still shot documentary style photographs. They were very powerful, and I felt them to be one of the most important pieces. "
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"By Tricia Olszewski Even revolutionaries pull stupid stunts and cruise for girls at some point in their lives. That’s the gist of Walter Salles’ The Motorcycle Diaries, which focuses on Argentine rebel Che Guevara and the traveling he did in 1952 at the age of 23, when the possibility of scoring a pair of sisters with his buddy was more exciting to him than the emancipation of the proletariat. Back then, Che was merely Ernesto—or “Fuser,” to his best friend, Alberto Granado. When the film begins, Alberto (Rodrigo de la Serna) is a stocky, gregarious 29-year-old biochemist from Buenos Aires who wants to see the rest of Latin America before his 30th birthday. The quieter, asthmatic Ernesto (Gael García Bernal) is about to finish medical school and is just looking for a little adventure before settling into a career as a doctor. So they say goodbye to friends and family and take off for an 8,000-kilometer trek—four months long on paper, eig ... "
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"Hi, I just finished watching the DVD. I was touched and moved,"conmovido", by the movie. I enjoyed very much the Argentinian accent and how they express themselves. So frank, so free, so rich.I loved taking the ride with them. Excellent cinematography. Beautiful images at the end of the film.It's no doubt Gael and Rodrigo portrayed excellent personalities of the "Che" Guevara and Alberto Granado. Very "simpatico" characters. You want to explore with them the unknown and the injustice they come across the road.A friend of mine told me that the director Walter Salles did not reach further on his quest to go deeper as he did with Central Station with the reality of life. But to me, you can understand what is going on in south America. I don't need to go back to the 50's. He can use this movie to reflect what is Latinamerica about.You can sense it right now. But, some of us might turn the heads and close the eyes. It does not matter, with eyes ... "
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Gael Garcia Bernal
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"What a beautifully crafted film! Having a bit of a travel bug myself, I thought the cinematography alone was reason enough to see this picture. Add a little of the developmental experiences of a young man's life (and what an extraordinary life it turned out to be in this case!) and you have a truly engaging and pleasant film experience. A friend I talked to after just seeing this movie, because he had made a trek to Macchu Picchu himself, told me that he preferred the book (you'll have to excuse him, he's a self-proclaimed poet). I can't imagine the book accurately capturing the sheer intense awe that is Macchu Picchu (or the South American west coast). Gael Garcia Bernal is going to be one of the biggest stars of the next decade. In any film I've ever seen him in, it is totally impossible to take your eyes off of him. Geez, I wish I was gay! "
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"Motorcycle Diaries (2004; Spanish) is the story of “Che” Guevera and his friend De La Serna’s trip from Argentina to Venezuela in 1952. The movie is a brilliant and subtle portrait of an introverted intellectual who saw the world, processed it quietly and intelligently, and came out a Communist revolutionary in Cuba and a poster idol among rebellious American teenagers of the 60s. If you do not like young people, if you hate Latinos, if you find introverts boring, if you think idealism is passé, if you shun lepers, if you suspect males, and if you condemn motorcycles and hitch-hiking as dangerous nonsense, you will object to this movie. Otherwise, prepare to enjoy a wonderful recreation of the a year in the youth of one of the West’s notorious figures. The acting by Gael Garcia Bernel, as Ernesto Guevera, is "
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"... but not a full picture of Che's life as an activist. I know a lot of people who didn't like this film because it didn't offer a complete history, but I thought the movie, if taken on it's own merits, was gorgeous, well-acted; a thoroughly enjoyable story. "
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