Chevolution

The image that launched a thousand t-shirts…
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  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: January 19, 2010
  • Originally Released: 2008
  • Label: Magnolia Home Ent

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Everyone knows the image this film is about... A movie about a picture is slightly unusual, and regrettably nowhere near as memorable as the original image. Full Review
Critic's Notebook
Aug 9, 2018
Rating: 4/5 -- This illuminating doc lucidly lays out the history, legacy and legal wrangles surrounding Alberto Korda's iconic portrait of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara. Full Review
Total Film
Sep 18, 2009
Rating: 3/5 -- Revolution is always with us: this week's guerrilla documentary, watchable and well-researched, is Chevolution. Full Review
Financial Times
Sep 18, 2009
A tight, energetic documentary.
Little White Lies
Sep 18, 2009
Rating: 7/10 -- A history of Guevara that not only succeeds in avoiding either blind lionization or reactionary condemnation, but that looks at him via the lens through which we most often see him: a single iconic photograph. Full Review
DCist
Jun 12, 2010
Rating: 2.5/5 -- Chevolution is punctuated by a few of the more irritating tics that seem to tempt documentarists, but largely remains an informative and balanced history, although it concludes badly. Full Review
Filmstar Magazine
Sep 18, 2009
Rating: 3/5 -- This intelligent documentary wonders how it happened, and how a hardline Marxist keen on political violence became a marketing tool and patron saint of every vaguely anti-establishment movement on the planet. Full Review
Independent (UK)
Sep 18, 2009

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On March 5, 1960, Che Guevara, one of the architects of the Cuban revolution, attended a memorial service for seventy-five men who died while explosive cargo was being unloaded from a ship in the Havana harbor. Photographer Alberto Korda snapped a picture of Guevara at the event, and while it went unpublished at the time, in the late Sixties an Italian publisher, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, asked Korda's permission to reproduce the image of the then-martyred revolutionary leader. Korda agreed, and within a few years his portrait of Che, wearing a beret and looking with determination to some point in the distance, became one of the most famous photos in the world. Korda didn't mind seeing the photo appear in unlikely places, from banners at protests to T-shirts, but in 2000 he filed suit against the producers of Smirnoff vodka after they used the picture in a magazine advertisement, arguing that he never intended it to be used for commercial purposes. Filmmakers Trisha Ziff and Luis Lopez trace the strange journey of Korda's portrait of Che, from revolutionary symbol to advertising logo and an iconic but little-understood image often adopted by young people who aren't sure who the man is, in the documentary CHEVOLUTION. The film includes interviews with actors Antonio Banderas and Gael Garcia Bernal, both of whom have played Guevara on screen, and Tom Morello of the Leftist rock band Rage Against The Machine, who have used the Che portrait on their T-shirts.

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  • UPC: 876964002721
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