A tight, energetic documentary.
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09/18/09
Chevolution (2008)
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:10
Rotten:3
Average Rating:6.1/10
Genre: Education/General Interest
US Box Office: $0
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Gael Garcia Bernal, Che Guevara, Tom Morello
Director: Luis Lopez, Trisha Ziff
Reviews for Chevolution
1 - 13 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Zippy enough, if a little meandering, and spends equal time on the man and the myth.
09/18/09
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.
09/18/09
Top CriticBalanced, thought-provoking, and unexpectedly compelling.
09/18/09
This illuminating doc lucidly lays out the history, legacy and legal wrangles surrounding Alberto Korda’s iconic portrait of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara.
09/18/09
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.
09/18/09
Revolution is always with us: this week’s guerrilla documentary, watchable and well-researched, is Chevolution.
09/18/09
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.
09/18/09
Fascinating biography of an image, showing how an artist's work can take on a life of its own.
09/18/09
Top CriticEven though it gets a little earnest, this well-assembled film is entertaining, lively and packed with scenes and details we've never heard before.
09/18/09
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.
09/10/09
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.
05/28/08
Top CriticThe 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.
05/22/08
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