Revolutionary spirit swept through the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday, when a new film about Che Guevara was premiered. Big names like Jerry Hall and French actress Emmanuelle Beart were on hand to congratulate The Motorcycle Diaries' leading man, Gael Garcia Bernal, who has already made quite an impression on this year's festival thanks to his lead role in Bad Education.
The movie is based on the diaries kept by Guevara when he and his friend Alberto Granado made a trip around South America on their Norton 500 in 1952. When they first set off, Che was a mild-mannered medical student, but seeing the bitter poverty all over the continent turned him into a driven political activist.
"We were two young people who went out to discover the world," explained Alberto, who helped in the making of the film. "We found enormous differences between rich and poor, which we had read about in books but became much more obvious when we saw them with our eyes."
Gael meanwhile affirmed that, although he has been receiving lucrative offers from Hollywood, he will not turn his back on his homeland. "I'll make the time," he said. "Perhaps it is the only responsibility I have. Latin America is the only place where I say, yeah, I want to do something every year there." |
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