The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
Directed by Walter Salles
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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On the other hand, the film is impossibly gorgeous, as shot by Eric Gautier, who has made a career out of gorgeous movies that are kind of bad in all other ways (his last project to make much impact in this country was the pancake-flat Che biopic The Motorcycle Diaries ).
The "getting of wisdom" allows for an ample variety of landscapes, and, if Penn's eye for beauty is mostly trite (cathedral lighting ladled on tree trunks, golden sunsets seen out of a boxcar), a good deal of imagery is splashing-the-lens visceral, caught by the splendid cinematographer Eric Gautier with the offhand glow he lent The Motorcycle Diaries .
Cinematographer Eric Gautier (The Motorcycle Diaries, Clean, Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train) favors long lenses here, the kind that can isolate one subject twixt foreground and background and then, dramatically changing their plane of focus, seek out another.
Enhanced by the storytelling of Jon Krakauer and now Sean Penn, the countercultural tale of Into the Wild has some of the same poetry to it as On the Road or The Motorcycle Diaries.
The camerawork is skillfully designed and executed by cinematographer Eric Gautier ( "The Motorcycle Diaries" who takes advantage of the beauty and off beat off-the-beaten-path nature of the locales.
A cross between 2004's " The Motorcycle Diaries ," 2005's " The War of the Worlds ," and 2009's " District 9 " with plenty of 1934's "It Happened One Night" thrown in, "Monsters" is, collectively, like no other feature film in memory.
In the tradition of such before-they-were-famous portraits as The Motorcycle Diaries, Darlings confines its focus solely to the group's pre-formative years, ending just before they emerge as real artists (i.e. when they actually start to get interesting).
Letters to Juliet is directed by Gary Winick with a screenplay by Jose Rivera (Academy Award nominee for The Motorcycle Diaries ) and Tim Sullivan.
Bachelor No. 1 is the handsome and vivacious Gael Garcia Bernal, charismatic star of "Y Tu Mama También" and "The Motorcycle Diaries."
Her Sophie is an independent, kind, admirable heroine, and so the disappointment that comes from director Gary Winick's and screenwriters Jose Rivera's (2004's " The Motorcycle Diaries ") and Tim Sullivan's (2006's " Flushed Away ") treatment of her is that they assume she must instantly need a man to be happy.
Screenwriters Jose Rivera ( "The Motorcycle Diaries" ) and Tim Sullivan don't help things by piling on more saccharine than substance and some truly groan inducing lines that severely test this appealing cast's appeal.