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Soderbergh Gets Castro's Blessing for Che [Soderbergh Epic]
Posted on November 20, 2008

Steven Soderbergh's four-hour, two part epic Che will screen at next month's New Latin American Film Festival in Havana, reports the New York Post. Since the festival's president had said that any anti-Castro sentiment in the film would be grounds for exclusion back in July, we can assume the finished film skirts the controversial questions and lionizes Guevara throughout its elongated running time. Cinematically we're making a demand on the audience that's very similar to the demands Che made on the people around him, says Soderbergh, which begs the question: did Fidel just fall asleep half...
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