The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
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Critic Consensus: The Motorcycle Diaries is heartfelt and profound in its rendering of the formative experiences that turn Ernesto "Che" Guerva into a famous revolutionary.
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Cast
as Ernesto `Che' Guevara
as Alberto Granado
as Chichina Ferreyra
as Dr. Hugo Pesce
as Celia de la Serna
as Dr. Bresciani
as Ernesto Guevara Lynch
as Roberto Guevara
as Celita Guevara
as Ana Maria Guevara
as Juan Martin Guevara
as Uncle Jorge
as Young Traveler
as Young Traveller
as Rodolfo
as Tomas Granado
as Kid
as Kid
as Kid
as Kid
as La Negra
as Chichina Friend
as Chichina Friend
as Chichina Friend
as Chichina Friend
as Chichina Friend
as Chichina Friend
as Chichina Friend
as Horacio Ferreyra
as Uncle Martin
as Esteban Aguirre
as Chichina's Mother
as Man with Oxen Cart
as Don Olate
as Von Puttkamer
as Schatzie Von Puttkamer
as Luna
as Tulio
as Piedad
as Araucano Father
as Araucano Son
as Chilean Sister
as Chilean Sister
as Waiter
as Fire Chief
as Canaco
as Fireman
as Janitor
as Old Woman
as Mechanical
as Truck Driver
as Miner
as Miner's Wife
as Mine Foreman
as Chipi Chipi Band Singer
as Chipi Chipi Band Pianist
as Chipi Chipi Band Percussionist/Trumpeter
as Chipi Chipi Band Clarinet/Accordion
as Chipi Chipi Band Double Bass Player
as Felix
as Zdneka Pesce
as Luis Pesce
as Tito Pesce
as Peruvian from Canepa
as Luz
as Card Player
as Card Player
as Card Player
as Card Player
as Banca
as Sister Margarita
as Young Indian Nurse
as Papa Carlito
as Mother Sister Alberto
as Leper from San Pablo
as Leper from San Pablo
as Silvia
as Dr. Souza
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Critic Reviews for The Motorcycle Diaries
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A marvelous road picture and boys-become-men adventure, full of the best kind of idealism.
A dull, unsatisfying experience -- as well as inconclusive.
Well-acted, beautifully shot and broad and personal, The Motorcycle Diaries is nonetheless undermined in the end by a clunky search for meaning and depth that seems forced.
Quietly exhilarating, soulful and sincerely romantic.
It's about the gradual wakening into awareness, the graduation from carefree youth to responsible adulthood.
Whether you want to see The Motorcycle Diaries as entirely a personal story or as social and political allegory, it captures a far different and far more vulnerable Ernesto Guevara than the one we think we know.
Audience Reviews for The Motorcycle Diaries
As a road trip film, it's stellar. As a historical insight into the events and psychological gear grinding that influenced the revolutionary leader known as Che Guevarra, it falters.
Super Reviewer
Whatever the intentions of its filmmakers what ultimately succeeds here is the opening of South America as more than simply a world party/nightclub stop as two young professionals put their promising lives on hold for a bit in order to sightsee their own unknown and surprisingly impoverished continent.
Super Reviewer
The Motorcycle Diaries is a wonderful, heartfelt film about two Argentinians who decide to bike across South America from Buenos Aires, to Valpariso, and on to Machu Picchu and Caracas in Venezuela. Gael Garcia Bernal and Rodrigo de la Serna star in this beautifully photographed, profound film, but the film doesn't go into any details about Ernesto "Che" Guevara's life as the Cuban Revolutionary, and the story gets pretty scattered and it's sometimes hard to know where they are in the trip or how they got to where they are.
Super Reviewer
The Motorcycle Diaries Quotes
| Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: | How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew? |
| Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: | You gotta fight for every breath and tell death to go to hell. |
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