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Cannes: Mercredi, 21 Mai
Published 5/21/2008 by Nick Plowman at Fataculture
... The day of the “Chevolution” - and I am going to totally black out now. No reviews of ”Che” will be read by me, nor will I listen to its “buzz” - or, at least, I will try as best as I can. Besides the Che films, ...

Cannes. Che.
Published 5/22/2008 at GreenCine Daily
"Che benefits greatly from certain Soderberghian qualities that don't always serve his other films well, e.g., detachment, formalism, and intellectual curiosity," writes ...

Cannes 08: "Che."
Published 5/23/2008 by Alison Willmore at IFC: Indie Eye
... The noxious thing to say would be that when Steven Soderbergh's "Che" is whittled down and divided up into two solid-sized features for realistic theatrical consumption, it's not going to be nearly as good as it is in the Brobdingnagian, barely finished form that screened here at Cannes — 268 minutes, with no credits but with an intermission, during which the festival staff proffered brown bags stamped with "CHE" containing a bottle of water and half a sandwich, and smokers and non-smokers alike crowded onto the balcony to feverishly light up. And to be ...

Cannes: Your Guess is as Good as Mine
Published 5/25/2008 by Nick Plowman at Fataculture
... Polarising is a simple way to define the reaction of critics towards the “City of God” master worker’s latest. Being called “harrowing” and “diluted” in the same sentence, one can has to take into consideration the power of the novel, and if the film did not live up to it, the film’s star power should get it thrust into the Oscar race, but I don’t think it is has a serious chance at taking anything away from Cannes. “Che” by Steven Soderbergh So I croaked on this one, and checked on the short ...