Film

The Motorcycle Diaries 2004

Directed by Walter Salles

  • Drama
  • 126 min
  • R

Let the world change you...and you can change the world.

Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.

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Earnest, classical in form, prestige and contemplative.

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  • classical in formformally daring
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  • contemplativerelentless
  • gravecomic

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