Exclusive: CAA has inked acclaimed Brazilian filmmaker, documentarian, and philanthropist Walter Salles.
A USC alum, Salles has been a filmmaker for 35 years, his 1995 feature Foreign Land selected by over 40 film festivals and being local hit in his homeland.
His 1998 drama Central Station about a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother recently died died, searching for the father he never knew; was nominated for two Oscars — Best Foreign Language Film and Fernanda Montenegro for Best Actress– and won the Foreign Language Film Golden Globe, blasted him off to a career in Hollywood. The movie also won a BAFTA, and the Berlin International Film Festival’s Golden Bear.
His 2004 feature The Motorcycle Diaries from Focus Features, about an early road trip made by Che Guevara and Alberto Granado through South America that defined their revolutionary beginnings, grabbed a Golden Globe nom, and won...
A USC alum, Salles has been a filmmaker for 35 years, his 1995 feature Foreign Land selected by over 40 film festivals and being local hit in his homeland.
His 1998 drama Central Station about a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother recently died died, searching for the father he never knew; was nominated for two Oscars — Best Foreign Language Film and Fernanda Montenegro for Best Actress– and won the Foreign Language Film Golden Globe, blasted him off to a career in Hollywood. The movie also won a BAFTA, and the Berlin International Film Festival’s Golden Bear.
His 2004 feature The Motorcycle Diaries from Focus Features, about an early road trip made by Che Guevara and Alberto Granado through South America that defined their revolutionary beginnings, grabbed a Golden Globe nom, and won...
- 1/21/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Do: check the instructions (Wild)
This month sees the release of Wild, based on Cheryl Strayed's memoir about her solo hike along the gruelling 1,000 mile Pacific Crest Trail. Cheryl (Reese Witherspoon) certainly doesn't make it easy for herself, buying the wrong type of gas cylinder for her stove and thus being forced to subsist on a diet of "cold mush."
Don't: give up (Touching The Void)
Consider the obstacles that Joe Simpson faced during his calamitous attempt to climb Peruvian mountain Siula Grande: a broken leg; a fall into a crevasse; and zero hope of rescue after partner Simon Yates left him for dead. And yet, as recounted in classic documentary Touching The Void, Simpson gritted his teeth and dragged himself through hell to reach safety.
Do: stay calm (Life Of Pi)
Travel is unpredictable. One minute, like Indian teenager Pi (Suraj Sharma), you're emigrating to Canada aboard a freighter.
This month sees the release of Wild, based on Cheryl Strayed's memoir about her solo hike along the gruelling 1,000 mile Pacific Crest Trail. Cheryl (Reese Witherspoon) certainly doesn't make it easy for herself, buying the wrong type of gas cylinder for her stove and thus being forced to subsist on a diet of "cold mush."
Don't: give up (Touching The Void)
Consider the obstacles that Joe Simpson faced during his calamitous attempt to climb Peruvian mountain Siula Grande: a broken leg; a fall into a crevasse; and zero hope of rescue after partner Simon Yates left him for dead. And yet, as recounted in classic documentary Touching The Void, Simpson gritted his teeth and dragged himself through hell to reach safety.
Do: stay calm (Life Of Pi)
Travel is unpredictable. One minute, like Indian teenager Pi (Suraj Sharma), you're emigrating to Canada aboard a freighter.
- 1/16/2015
- Digital Spy
It’s not always the destination but how you get there, and John Curran’s Tracks, released today in the UK, proves exactly that. Starring Mia Wasikowska as the socially inept and desperately stubborn Robyn, Tracks follows this young woman as she treks 1,700 miles across West Australia.
To celebrate the film’s release we took a look at some of the best journeys in cinema and the characters who took them.
Stand By Me
1986, dir. Rob Reiner
A perfect film about the tribulations of growing up, Stand By Me ends with four boys visiting a missing body, but the obstacles that they endure on their trip, from raging trains to high school bullies are what shape its characters. So believable are the scrappy and defiant nature of our four protagonists that its difficult not to side with them, even if the end of their journey doesn’t signify a great victory.
To celebrate the film’s release we took a look at some of the best journeys in cinema and the characters who took them.
Stand By Me
1986, dir. Rob Reiner
A perfect film about the tribulations of growing up, Stand By Me ends with four boys visiting a missing body, but the obstacles that they endure on their trip, from raging trains to high school bullies are what shape its characters. So believable are the scrappy and defiant nature of our four protagonists that its difficult not to side with them, even if the end of their journey doesn’t signify a great victory.
- 4/25/2014
- by Beth Webb
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Wildly successful Italian producer Pietro Valsecchi says he's eager for Antonio Banderas to star in biopic about the pontiff's younger years
Antonio Banderas is being tapped by one of Italy's most successful film producers to star as a young Pope Francis in a new biopic.
Pietro Valsecchi, the man behind popular comedies Sun in Buckets (Sole a catinelle) from this year and What a Beautiful Day (Che bella giornata) from 2011, broke the news in a television interview. The proposed film would most likely debut on the small screen in Italy.
Valsecchi's popular films, which star musician and standup comic Checco Zalone and are often directed by Gennaro Nunziante, are lowbrow comedies. But the producer certainly has the financial clout to get the biopic made, with his last two movies currently standing as the highest grossing films of all time in Italy, ahead of Roberto Benigni's 1997 Oscar winner Life is Beautiful.
Antonio Banderas is being tapped by one of Italy's most successful film producers to star as a young Pope Francis in a new biopic.
Pietro Valsecchi, the man behind popular comedies Sun in Buckets (Sole a catinelle) from this year and What a Beautiful Day (Che bella giornata) from 2011, broke the news in a television interview. The proposed film would most likely debut on the small screen in Italy.
Valsecchi's popular films, which star musician and standup comic Checco Zalone and are often directed by Gennaro Nunziante, are lowbrow comedies. But the producer certainly has the financial clout to get the biopic made, with his last two movies currently standing as the highest grossing films of all time in Italy, ahead of Roberto Benigni's 1997 Oscar winner Life is Beautiful.
- 12/11/2013
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
“How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew?”
The Motorcycle Diaries is screening at 7pm this Thursday, November 7th at Schlafly Bottleworks – 7260 Southwest Ave St Louis, Mo 63143. Doors open at 6:30pm. It’s a fundraiser for Helping Kids Together
The Motorcycle Diaries is the true story of two young Argentines, Alberto Granado and Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (“El Che”). In January of 1952, the two best friends embark on a journey on Alberto’s 1939 Norton 500 motorcycle. Over the course of 8 months they discover new destinations and also encounter the sorrow and injustices of the people of the land. Not only do the men discover a profound desire to change the world around them, but they also experience people and places that hardly anyone gets to discover.
Ernesto (Gael Garcia Bernal) is a 23 year old med student who is specializing in lepro-biology. His best friend...
The Motorcycle Diaries is screening at 7pm this Thursday, November 7th at Schlafly Bottleworks – 7260 Southwest Ave St Louis, Mo 63143. Doors open at 6:30pm. It’s a fundraiser for Helping Kids Together
The Motorcycle Diaries is the true story of two young Argentines, Alberto Granado and Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (“El Che”). In January of 1952, the two best friends embark on a journey on Alberto’s 1939 Norton 500 motorcycle. Over the course of 8 months they discover new destinations and also encounter the sorrow and injustices of the people of the land. Not only do the men discover a profound desire to change the world around them, but they also experience people and places that hardly anyone gets to discover.
Ernesto (Gael Garcia Bernal) is a 23 year old med student who is specializing in lepro-biology. His best friend...
- 11/4/2013
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Pontiff set for popcorn treatment as Argentinian director of The Lake House announces biopic starring The Motorcycle Diaries star Rodrigo de la Serna
Argentina's Alejandro Agresti is to bring the life story of Pope Francis to the big screen, reports Variety.
Rodrigo de la Serna, best known for his award-winning role as Che Guevara's travelling companion Alberto Granado in The Motorcycle Diaries, will play the world's first Argentine pope. The film, titled Historia de un cura (A Priest's Tale) will tell the story of the man born Jorge Mario Bergoglio from his youth to his election in March as head of the Roman Catholic Church.
Born in 1936 as the grandson of Italian immigrant parents in Buenos Aires, Francis became the first pontiff from the southern Hemisphere and the first of Jesuit origin earlier this year, as well as the first from any Latin American nation. Agresti's movie will tell...
Argentina's Alejandro Agresti is to bring the life story of Pope Francis to the big screen, reports Variety.
Rodrigo de la Serna, best known for his award-winning role as Che Guevara's travelling companion Alberto Granado in The Motorcycle Diaries, will play the world's first Argentine pope. The film, titled Historia de un cura (A Priest's Tale) will tell the story of the man born Jorge Mario Bergoglio from his youth to his election in March as head of the Roman Catholic Church.
Born in 1936 as the grandson of Italian immigrant parents in Buenos Aires, Francis became the first pontiff from the southern Hemisphere and the first of Jesuit origin earlier this year, as well as the first from any Latin American nation. Agresti's movie will tell...
- 9/4/2013
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
The characters go on about how incredibly life-affirming they are, but this take on Kerouac's classic novel flatlines
After its premiere at Cannes earlier this year, Walter Salles's On the Road – based on the 1957 novel by Jack Kerouac – has now arrived for its UK release in a re-edited form, trimmed by 15 minutes to just over two hours. The dissatisfactions of this overripe and overblown road movie remain exactly the same. The film is stiflingly reverent towards its source material, and indeed towards itself. It's good-looking and handsomely produced, but directionless and self-adoring, richly furnished but at the same time weirdly empty, bathed in an elegiac sunset glow of male adoration.
What seemed rhapsodic and euphoric on the page here looks smug, self-regarding and intensely self-conscious. When the actors start mouthing ersatz-passionate dialogue about poetry and novels, the movie starts to flatline, and worse still, when they start on about...
After its premiere at Cannes earlier this year, Walter Salles's On the Road – based on the 1957 novel by Jack Kerouac – has now arrived for its UK release in a re-edited form, trimmed by 15 minutes to just over two hours. The dissatisfactions of this overripe and overblown road movie remain exactly the same. The film is stiflingly reverent towards its source material, and indeed towards itself. It's good-looking and handsomely produced, but directionless and self-adoring, richly furnished but at the same time weirdly empty, bathed in an elegiac sunset glow of male adoration.
What seemed rhapsodic and euphoric on the page here looks smug, self-regarding and intensely self-conscious. When the actors start mouthing ersatz-passionate dialogue about poetry and novels, the movie starts to flatline, and worse still, when they start on about...
- 10/11/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
On the Road‘s English-language reviews have been mixed. (Please scroll down for snippets from a handful of Us/UK reviews.) Walter Salles directed the long-gestating movie adaptation of Jack Kerouac‘s 1950s’ novel about his road trips in the post-World War II United States. The On the Road cast is headed by Tron: Legacy‘s Garrett Hedlund, Control‘s Sam Riley, and Twilight‘s Kristen Stewart (photo), who landed the role after Salles saw her in Into the Wild. [See also On The Road Variety review.] Drew McWeeny at HitFix: "On the Road does not feel like a dry history lesson, nor is it overly reverent toward its subjects. Instead, Salles, working with screenwriter Jose Rivera, managed to make something that has a pulse of its own, and that’s due in no small part to the casting of Garrett Hedlund and Sam Riley as Dean Moriarty and Sal Paradise. They have a strong, easy chemistry...
- 5/23/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Handsome shots and touching sadness don't compensate for the tedious air of self-congratulation in Walter Salles's road movie
Walter Salles has brought to Cannes a good-looking but directionless and self-adoring road movie, based on the 1957 novel by Jack Kerouac. It's comparable to Salles's 2004 film The Motorcycle Diaries about the early adventures of Che Guevara and his buddy Alberto Granado – but there the travellers were learning to think and care about people other than themselves. This really isn't the case with the heroes of On the Road, who strenuously insist on how passionate and life-affirming they are, with dozens of self-consciously staged parties, in which the characters heroically swig from bottles, smoke joints, have sex and become narcissistic, flatulent and boring in a way that isn't entirely intentional.
The journey across America is part of the literary education of budding writer Sal Paradise, played by Sam Riley, and everyone has...
Walter Salles has brought to Cannes a good-looking but directionless and self-adoring road movie, based on the 1957 novel by Jack Kerouac. It's comparable to Salles's 2004 film The Motorcycle Diaries about the early adventures of Che Guevara and his buddy Alberto Granado – but there the travellers were learning to think and care about people other than themselves. This really isn't the case with the heroes of On the Road, who strenuously insist on how passionate and life-affirming they are, with dozens of self-consciously staged parties, in which the characters heroically swig from bottles, smoke joints, have sex and become narcissistic, flatulent and boring in a way that isn't entirely intentional.
The journey across America is part of the literary education of budding writer Sal Paradise, played by Sam Riley, and everyone has...
- 5/23/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
From animation to epic sci-fi to intimate dramas, here’s our pick of the 50 finest foreign language films of the past ten years…
It is quite clear that mainstream cinema no longer applies just to Hollywood blockbusters, or the odd British comedy. With the advent of mass home cinema in the last decade, and the increasing availability of pretty much anything and everything on DVD, Blu-ray, or streaming services like Netflix, world cinema has finally crossed the divide of being the preserve of the connoisseur, or the type of thing you’d stumble on late at night on TV.
In the last ten years, world cinema has made a massive impact on film-of-the-year lists, and many people’s personal favourites. Starting from 2002 and ending here in 2012, it’s safe to say that you’ll have seen many of the films below, and enjoyed them simply as great pieces of filmmaking,...
It is quite clear that mainstream cinema no longer applies just to Hollywood blockbusters, or the odd British comedy. With the advent of mass home cinema in the last decade, and the increasing availability of pretty much anything and everything on DVD, Blu-ray, or streaming services like Netflix, world cinema has finally crossed the divide of being the preserve of the connoisseur, or the type of thing you’d stumble on late at night on TV.
In the last ten years, world cinema has made a massive impact on film-of-the-year lists, and many people’s personal favourites. Starting from 2002 and ending here in 2012, it’s safe to say that you’ll have seen many of the films below, and enjoyed them simply as great pieces of filmmaking,...
- 2/8/2012
- Den of Geek
Gael García Bernal is overgroomed as Che Guevara, but this chronicle of a formative and revolutionary roadtrip is accurate
Director: Walter Salles
Entertainment grade: B
History grade: A–
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna was an Argentine doctor. Under the name Che Guevara, he became a comandante, or major, in the Cuban revolution, and later led communist guerrilla units in the Congo and Bolivia.
Casting
Medical student Ernesto Guevara and his biochemist friend Alberto Granado set out on their motorcycle from Buenos Aires, heading for North America. According to press reports, Rodrigo de la Serna, playing Alberto, is a second cousin to the real Che Guevara. DNA isn't everything, though: the unrelated Mexican actor Gael García Bernal, playing Ernesto, much more closely resembles Guevara in 1952. Indeed, when the real Ernesto was well groomed, it was often said that he looked like a movie star. But that didn't happen too often, for...
Director: Walter Salles
Entertainment grade: B
History grade: A–
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna was an Argentine doctor. Under the name Che Guevara, he became a comandante, or major, in the Cuban revolution, and later led communist guerrilla units in the Congo and Bolivia.
Casting
Medical student Ernesto Guevara and his biochemist friend Alberto Granado set out on their motorcycle from Buenos Aires, heading for North America. According to press reports, Rodrigo de la Serna, playing Alberto, is a second cousin to the real Che Guevara. DNA isn't everything, though: the unrelated Mexican actor Gael García Bernal, playing Ernesto, much more closely resembles Guevara in 1952. Indeed, when the real Ernesto was well groomed, it was often said that he looked like a movie star. But that didn't happen too often, for...
- 4/14/2011
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
The Argentine adventurer who was immortalised as revolutionary Che Guevara's sidekick on a motorbike trip across Latin America has died, aged 88.
Biochemist Alberto Granado appeared in Guevara's memoirs and was portrayed onscreen by actor Rodrigo De la Serna in The Motorcycle Diaries. He died in Cuba on Saturday.
In 1952, he and a young Guevara set off on a fabled road trip on a Norton motorcycle.
The experience turned Che into an accomplished writer and a serious advocate for change. He went on to become one of the most iconic revolutionaries of the 20th century.
His memoirs of the trip were published as The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey, while Granado penned Traveling With Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary.
Their journals inspired Walter Salles' 2004 movie starring De la Serna and Gael Garcia Bernal.
Biochemist Alberto Granado appeared in Guevara's memoirs and was portrayed onscreen by actor Rodrigo De la Serna in The Motorcycle Diaries. He died in Cuba on Saturday.
In 1952, he and a young Guevara set off on a fabled road trip on a Norton motorcycle.
The experience turned Che into an accomplished writer and a serious advocate for change. He went on to become one of the most iconic revolutionaries of the 20th century.
His memoirs of the trip were published as The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey, while Granado penned Traveling With Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary.
Their journals inspired Walter Salles' 2004 movie starring De la Serna and Gael Garcia Bernal.
- 3/8/2011
- WENN
Travelling companion of Che Guevara during their trip around Latin America in 1951-52
Alberto Granado, who has died aged 88, was a biochemist from Argentina whose name became indelibly associated with that of Che Guevara, his revolutionary friend and former travelling companion. Their travels together through Latin America in the early 1950s were given fresh currency more than half a century later in Walter Salles's popular film, The Motorcycle Diaries (2004). Both men wrote diaries of their journey that fed into the creation of the myths associated with Guevara's life and death.
Granado was born in the Argentinian province of Córdoba, the son of an impoverished Spanish immigrant and trade unionist who worked on the railways. He became friendly with the teenage Guevara largely because Alberto's younger brother, Tomás, was at school in Córdoba with the future revolutionary; Guevara was soon enrolled in a rugby team that Alberto had organised.
Granado...
Alberto Granado, who has died aged 88, was a biochemist from Argentina whose name became indelibly associated with that of Che Guevara, his revolutionary friend and former travelling companion. Their travels together through Latin America in the early 1950s were given fresh currency more than half a century later in Walter Salles's popular film, The Motorcycle Diaries (2004). Both men wrote diaries of their journey that fed into the creation of the myths associated with Guevara's life and death.
Granado was born in the Argentinian province of Córdoba, the son of an impoverished Spanish immigrant and trade unionist who worked on the railways. He became friendly with the teenage Guevara largely because Alberto's younger brother, Tomás, was at school in Córdoba with the future revolutionary; Guevara was soon enrolled in a rugby team that Alberto had organised.
Granado...
- 3/8/2011
- by Richard Gott
- The Guardian - Film News
Sundance Film Festival
PARK CITY -- It's a trip back in time, headwise, to the '60s. An on-the-road venture of the Kerouac-ean style, "The Motorcycle Diaries" is based in part on the diaries of Che Guevara. Yes, that Che Guevara. Although "Motorcycle" is of the '60s zeitgeist, the actual trip took place in 1952. Such a filmic venture, realistically, will have its most hospitable venues around liberal universities.
Ultimately, this cinematic journey is a trek of personal transformation, and one need not have had a poster of Che in the dorm to appreciate this nonpolitical saga. "Motorcycle" is the coming-of-maturity tale of two young, idealistic men who wish to traverse South America before they hit 30.
Down to generics, "Motorcycle" is a trek/buddy movie with opposite personalities: Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (Gael Garcia Bernal) is serious and a bit stiff, while Alberto Granado (Rodrigo De La Serna) is playful and pragmatic. Crammed atop a beat-up Norton 500, they're an odd pair in many ways, but their fuel is the same: idealism. Their open road is uncharted, but both are guided with a beneficent nature. They ultimately travel to a leper colony, where they hope to bring their medical and scientific expertise to good use.
Given the daunting terrain of South America -- they traverse a huge part of the continent -- their journey is full of mishaps and misadventures. Theirs is a venture through back roads and uncharted areas
the hardships test their personal mettle every dusty, threatening kilometer of the way. Unfortunately for entertainment value, these two travelers are not, to put it mildly, wild and crazy guys
as such, the film sometimes seems like a "National Geographic" travelogue.
Fortunately, screenwriter Jose Rivera's distillation of the books upon which the film is based is succinct and psychologically illuminating. Energetically directed by Walter Salles, "Motorcycle" is a smartly scoped story of great personal growth and transformation. It's not hard to see the personality/political basis for Che's later revolutionary actions.
Overall, the film's technical aspects are a well-realized, synergistic blend. The percussive indigenous sounds, courtesy of composer Gustavo Santaolalla, and the rhythmic varieties of cinematographer Eric Gautier's scopings invigorate this cinematic/psychological trek.
THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES
Pathe International
FilmFour presents
A South Fork Pictures production
in association with Tu Vas Voir Prods.
Credits:
Director: Walter Salles
Screenwriter: Jose Rivera
Based on the books "The Motorcycle Diaries" by Ernesto Che Guevera and "With Che Through Latin America" by Alberto Granado
Producers: Michael Nozik, Edgard Tenembaum, Karen Tenkhoff
Executive producers: Robert Redford, Paul Webster, Rebecca Yeldham
Co-producers: Daniel Burman, Diego Dubcovsky
Executive in charge of production: Peter McAleese
Artistic supervisor: Gianni Min
Director of photography: Eric Gautier
Editor: Daniel Rezende
Music: Gustavo Santaolalla
Production designer: Carlos Conti
Costume designers: Beatriz De Benedetto, Marisa Urruti
Casting director: Walter Rippel
Cast:
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: Gael Garcia Bernal
Alberto Granado: Rodrigo De La Serna
Chichina Ferreyra: Mia Maestro
Celia de la Serna: Mercedes Moran
Dr. Bresciani: Jorge Chirella
Running time -- 128 minutes
No MPAA rating...
PARK CITY -- It's a trip back in time, headwise, to the '60s. An on-the-road venture of the Kerouac-ean style, "The Motorcycle Diaries" is based in part on the diaries of Che Guevara. Yes, that Che Guevara. Although "Motorcycle" is of the '60s zeitgeist, the actual trip took place in 1952. Such a filmic venture, realistically, will have its most hospitable venues around liberal universities.
Ultimately, this cinematic journey is a trek of personal transformation, and one need not have had a poster of Che in the dorm to appreciate this nonpolitical saga. "Motorcycle" is the coming-of-maturity tale of two young, idealistic men who wish to traverse South America before they hit 30.
Down to generics, "Motorcycle" is a trek/buddy movie with opposite personalities: Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (Gael Garcia Bernal) is serious and a bit stiff, while Alberto Granado (Rodrigo De La Serna) is playful and pragmatic. Crammed atop a beat-up Norton 500, they're an odd pair in many ways, but their fuel is the same: idealism. Their open road is uncharted, but both are guided with a beneficent nature. They ultimately travel to a leper colony, where they hope to bring their medical and scientific expertise to good use.
Given the daunting terrain of South America -- they traverse a huge part of the continent -- their journey is full of mishaps and misadventures. Theirs is a venture through back roads and uncharted areas
the hardships test their personal mettle every dusty, threatening kilometer of the way. Unfortunately for entertainment value, these two travelers are not, to put it mildly, wild and crazy guys
as such, the film sometimes seems like a "National Geographic" travelogue.
Fortunately, screenwriter Jose Rivera's distillation of the books upon which the film is based is succinct and psychologically illuminating. Energetically directed by Walter Salles, "Motorcycle" is a smartly scoped story of great personal growth and transformation. It's not hard to see the personality/political basis for Che's later revolutionary actions.
Overall, the film's technical aspects are a well-realized, synergistic blend. The percussive indigenous sounds, courtesy of composer Gustavo Santaolalla, and the rhythmic varieties of cinematographer Eric Gautier's scopings invigorate this cinematic/psychological trek.
THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES
Pathe International
FilmFour presents
A South Fork Pictures production
in association with Tu Vas Voir Prods.
Credits:
Director: Walter Salles
Screenwriter: Jose Rivera
Based on the books "The Motorcycle Diaries" by Ernesto Che Guevera and "With Che Through Latin America" by Alberto Granado
Producers: Michael Nozik, Edgard Tenembaum, Karen Tenkhoff
Executive producers: Robert Redford, Paul Webster, Rebecca Yeldham
Co-producers: Daniel Burman, Diego Dubcovsky
Executive in charge of production: Peter McAleese
Artistic supervisor: Gianni Min
Director of photography: Eric Gautier
Editor: Daniel Rezende
Music: Gustavo Santaolalla
Production designer: Carlos Conti
Costume designers: Beatriz De Benedetto, Marisa Urruti
Casting director: Walter Rippel
Cast:
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: Gael Garcia Bernal
Alberto Granado: Rodrigo De La Serna
Chichina Ferreyra: Mia Maestro
Celia de la Serna: Mercedes Moran
Dr. Bresciani: Jorge Chirella
Running time -- 128 minutes
No MPAA rating...
LONDON -- Walter Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries has been selected to open the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF), organizers said Thursday. The movie, fresh from its appearance in Competition at the Festival de Cannes, will unspool on opening night Aug. 18 in Edinburgh. The EIFF screening will mark the U.K. premiere for the title starring Gael Garcia Bernal. It is based on the autobiographical journals of Ernesto "Che" Guevara and follows the 7,000-kilometer journey the 23-year-old future revolutionary undertook with his best friend, Alberto Granado, in the 1950s. EIFF organizers also said Dear Frankie, which aired in Un Certain Regard in Cannes earlier this month, will also take a place in this year's Edinburgh lineup. The Shona Auerbach-directed movie will take a slot in the festival's British gala section. The festival runs Aug. 18-29.
- 5/28/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
COLOGNE -- Walter Salles' Che Guevara biopic The Motorcycle Diaries will roll past the Berlin Film Festival this year in order to roar down the Croisette in Cannes, but the documentary on the making of the film, Traveling With Che Guevara, will screen in Berlin's Panorama section, Berlin festival organizers said Wednesday. The last-minute admission of the docu from Italian director Gianni Mina will give Berlin audiences a taste of Che, partially compensating for the loss of Diaries, which was set for a Berlin slot before being snatched by Cannes. Like Salles' film, Che recounts how 23-year-old medical student Ernesto Guevara became politically radicalized during a motorcycle trip through South America in 1952. Guevara's friend Alberto Granado, who accompanied him on the six-month journey, was an adviser on Motorcycle Diaries. In Mina's documentary, Granado recalls the trip as he advises Diaries actors Gael Garcia Bernal and Rodrigo De la Serna and comments on the making of the movie. Mina and Granado, 81, are both expected to attend the film's screening in Berlin.
- 1/29/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sundance Film Festival
PARK CITY -- It's a trip back in time, headwise, to the '60s. An on-the-road venture of the Kerouac-ean style, "The Motorcycle Diaries" is based in part on the diaries of Che Guevara. Yes, that Che Guevara. Although "Motorcycle" is of the '60s zeitgeist, the actual trip took place in 1952. Such a filmic venture, realistically, will have its most hospitable venues around liberal universities.
Ultimately, this cinematic journey is a trek of personal transformation, and one need not have had a poster of Che in the dorm to appreciate this nonpolitical saga. "Motorcycle" is the coming-of-maturity tale of two young, idealistic men who wish to traverse South America before they hit 30.
Down to generics, "Motorcycle" is a trek/buddy movie with opposite personalities: Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (Gael Garcia Bernal) is serious and a bit stiff, while Alberto Granado (Rodrigo De La Serna) is playful and pragmatic. Crammed atop a beat-up Norton 500, they're an odd pair in many ways, but their fuel is the same: idealism. Their open road is uncharted, but both are guided with a beneficent nature. They ultimately travel to a leper colony, where they hope to bring their medical and scientific expertise to good use.
Given the daunting terrain of South America -- they traverse a huge part of the continent -- their journey is full of mishaps and misadventures. Theirs is a venture through back roads and uncharted areas
the hardships test their personal mettle every dusty, threatening kilometer of the way. Unfortunately for entertainment value, these two travelers are not, to put it mildly, wild and crazy guys
as such, the film sometimes seems like a "National Geographic" travelogue.
Fortunately, screenwriter Jose Rivera's distillation of the books upon which the film is based is succinct and psychologically illuminating. Energetically directed by Walter Salles, "Motorcycle" is a smartly scoped story of great personal growth and transformation. It's not hard to see the personality/political basis for Che's later revolutionary actions.
Overall, the film's technical aspects are a well-realized, synergistic blend. The percussive indigenous sounds, courtesy of composer Gustavo Santaolalla, and the rhythmic varieties of cinematographer Eric Gautier's scopings invigorate this cinematic/psychological trek.
THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES
Pathe International
FilmFour presents
A South Fork Pictures production
in association with Tu Vas Voir Prods.
Credits:
Director: Walter Salles
Screenwriter: Jose Rivera
Based on the books "The Motorcycle Diaries" by Ernesto Che Guevera and "With Che Through Latin America" by Alberto Granado
Producers: Michael Nozik, Edgard Tenembaum, Karen Tenkhoff
Executive producers: Robert Redford, Paul Webster, Rebecca Yeldham
Co-producers: Daniel Burman, Diego Dubcovsky
Executive in charge of production: Peter McAleese
Artistic supervisor: Gianni Min
Director of photography: Eric Gautier
Editor: Daniel Rezende
Music: Gustavo Santaolalla
Production designer: Carlos Conti
Costume designers: Beatriz De Benedetto, Marisa Urruti
Casting director: Walter Rippel
Cast:
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: Gael Garcia Bernal
Alberto Granado: Rodrigo De La Serna
Chichina Ferreyra: Mia Maestro
Celia de la Serna: Mercedes Moran
Dr. Bresciani: Jorge Chirella
Running time -- 128 minutes
No MPAA rating...
PARK CITY -- It's a trip back in time, headwise, to the '60s. An on-the-road venture of the Kerouac-ean style, "The Motorcycle Diaries" is based in part on the diaries of Che Guevara. Yes, that Che Guevara. Although "Motorcycle" is of the '60s zeitgeist, the actual trip took place in 1952. Such a filmic venture, realistically, will have its most hospitable venues around liberal universities.
Ultimately, this cinematic journey is a trek of personal transformation, and one need not have had a poster of Che in the dorm to appreciate this nonpolitical saga. "Motorcycle" is the coming-of-maturity tale of two young, idealistic men who wish to traverse South America before they hit 30.
Down to generics, "Motorcycle" is a trek/buddy movie with opposite personalities: Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (Gael Garcia Bernal) is serious and a bit stiff, while Alberto Granado (Rodrigo De La Serna) is playful and pragmatic. Crammed atop a beat-up Norton 500, they're an odd pair in many ways, but their fuel is the same: idealism. Their open road is uncharted, but both are guided with a beneficent nature. They ultimately travel to a leper colony, where they hope to bring their medical and scientific expertise to good use.
Given the daunting terrain of South America -- they traverse a huge part of the continent -- their journey is full of mishaps and misadventures. Theirs is a venture through back roads and uncharted areas
the hardships test their personal mettle every dusty, threatening kilometer of the way. Unfortunately for entertainment value, these two travelers are not, to put it mildly, wild and crazy guys
as such, the film sometimes seems like a "National Geographic" travelogue.
Fortunately, screenwriter Jose Rivera's distillation of the books upon which the film is based is succinct and psychologically illuminating. Energetically directed by Walter Salles, "Motorcycle" is a smartly scoped story of great personal growth and transformation. It's not hard to see the personality/political basis for Che's later revolutionary actions.
Overall, the film's technical aspects are a well-realized, synergistic blend. The percussive indigenous sounds, courtesy of composer Gustavo Santaolalla, and the rhythmic varieties of cinematographer Eric Gautier's scopings invigorate this cinematic/psychological trek.
THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES
Pathe International
FilmFour presents
A South Fork Pictures production
in association with Tu Vas Voir Prods.
Credits:
Director: Walter Salles
Screenwriter: Jose Rivera
Based on the books "The Motorcycle Diaries" by Ernesto Che Guevera and "With Che Through Latin America" by Alberto Granado
Producers: Michael Nozik, Edgard Tenembaum, Karen Tenkhoff
Executive producers: Robert Redford, Paul Webster, Rebecca Yeldham
Co-producers: Daniel Burman, Diego Dubcovsky
Executive in charge of production: Peter McAleese
Artistic supervisor: Gianni Min
Director of photography: Eric Gautier
Editor: Daniel Rezende
Music: Gustavo Santaolalla
Production designer: Carlos Conti
Costume designers: Beatriz De Benedetto, Marisa Urruti
Casting director: Walter Rippel
Cast:
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: Gael Garcia Bernal
Alberto Granado: Rodrigo De La Serna
Chichina Ferreyra: Mia Maestro
Celia de la Serna: Mercedes Moran
Dr. Bresciani: Jorge Chirella
Running time -- 128 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 1/21/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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