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Excerpt of an article from the 2007 March issue of Sight & Sound magazine |
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CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE ONLINE |
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...Soderbergh's next project - a biopic of Che Guevara - is a historical minefield. It will take the form of two separate films, both shot over a 90-day period beginning in May. "I'd like to release them within a week of each other, but we'll see. The first one goes from the launch of Granma [which brought exiled revolutionaries to Cuba in 1956 to overthrow the regime] to the battle of Santa Clara [the last battle in the revolution, 1958]. The second is the Bolivian campaign and begins in 1964. Benecio (sic) Del Toro plays Che and the films will be made in Spanish. There's no US financing involved. It was very frustrating to know that this is a zeitgeist movie and that some of the very people who told me how much they now regret passing on Traffic passed on this one too. But as it turned out, we have all the financing we need without an American distribution deal." The first film will be shot in 16mm anamorphic because, Soderbergh says, "it needs a bit of Bruckheimer but scruffier. The second is in Super-16, 1.85:1. No dollies, no cranes, it's all either handheld or tripods. I want it to look nice but simple. We'll work with a very small group: basically me, the producer Gregory Jacobs and the unit production manager." As usual Soderbergh will be behind the camera. "The film would look better if, say, Harris Savides shot it because he's a better cinematographer than I am. But the thing as a whole would suffer because I'd be in my head more: it would be a less intuitive experience and I'd find that frustrating. I don't imagine injecting somebody into that role again, because it's gotten me, especially on the occasions where I've been able to cut as well, so close to my original impulse to make movies. I would never want to give that up now." |
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