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Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, popularly known as Che, along with his friend Alberto Granado, decides to take a road trip across South America. His experiences on the journey transform him. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, popularly known as Che, along with his friend Alberto Granado, decides to take a road trip across South America. His experiences on the journey transform him. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, popularly known as Che, along with his friend Alberto Granado, decides to take a road trip across South America. His experiences on the journey transform him.

• Walter Salles
• Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
• Alberto Granado
• Jose Rivera
• Gael García Bernal
• Rodrigo de la Serna
• Mía Maestro
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• 75 Metascore
• 36 wins & 49 nominations total

• Ernesto Guevara de la Serna

• (as Rodrigo De la Serna)

• Chichina Ferreyra

• Celia de la Serna (Argentina)

• Ernesto Guevara Lynch (Argentina)
• (as Jean-Pierre Noher)
• Roberto Guevara (Argentina)
• Celita Guevara (Argentina)

• Ana María Guevara (Argentina)
• (as Sofía Bertolotto)
• Juan Martín Guevara (Argentina)
• Uncle Jorge (Argentina)
• (as Ricardo Diaz Mourelle)
• Young Traveler (Argentina)
• Rodolfo (Argentina)
• Tomás Granado (Argentina)
• Kid (Argentina)
• (as Matías Gómez)
• (as Ariel Verdún)
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• Trivia When Ernesto and Alberto are in Temuco, walking with the bike and reading "El Diario Austral," Alberto complains because they misspelled his last name. El Diario Austral still exists, and it's the biggest newspaper in the Araucanía region of southern Chile. During filming in Temuco, the newspaper wrote a new article about the making of the film, and deliberately misspelled Alberto's last name again, 50 years later.
• Goofs At Macchu Pichu, a piece is broken off of the sundial at the Inti Huatana (Hitching Post of the Sun). The damage occurred in 2000, when a crane fell on it. In the 1950s, it was still in perfect condition.

Ernesto Guevara de la Serna : [voice over] How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew?

• Crazy credits The real Alberto appears at the very end of the film just before the credits.
• Connections Featured in The Making of 'the Motorcycle Diaries' (2004)
• Soundtracks Adiós Muchachos Written by César Felipe Veldani & Julio César Sander Interpreted by Rodrigo de la Serna Interpreted by Alberto Granado Editorial SADAIC

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• October 15, 2004 (United States)
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• Chuquicamata, Región de Antofagasta, Chile
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• Sep 26, 2004
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• Black and White
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En 1952, deux jeunes Argentins, Alberto Granado et Ernesto Guevara, partent à la découverte de l'Amérique latine. Ils débutent leur périple sur une vieille moto baptisée "La Vigoureuse".La confrontation avec la réalité sociale et politique des différents pays visités altère la perception que les deux amis ont du continent. Cette expérience éveillera de nouvelles vocations associées à un désir de justice sociale.

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Che - 1ère partie : L'Argentin

Che - 2ème partie : Guerilla

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• Lefandefilms Vu en cours d'Espagnol...franchement c'était pas mauvais mais ça s'essouffle et ca devient beaucoup moins interessant du coup , donc 3/5 pour cette superbe première heure et plusieurs scenes de la 2ème
• benoit V. un bon road movie qui nous en apprend beaucoup sur Ernesto Guevara et ses motivation qui feront de lui le CHE. Un voyage initiatique poignant et plein d'humanité.3,5/5
• cha.99 Quelques longueurs ce qui l'a rendu ennuyeux au fil du film !! Mais sinon une belle histoire qui retrace la vie de deux jeunes médecins qui partent visiter l’Amérique du sud et qui y découvrent autre chose qui vont leur faire prendre conscience des réalités de la vie !!
• Henri Mesquida Revu ce très beau film à l'humanité exalté, plein de poesie, de prises de conscience d'éveil à la vie et ou Garcia Bernal est aussi magistral que beau.
• All In The Game Oui, un excellent film. J'ai bien envie de le revoir du coup.
• CZJ69 Un très bon film !
• EvansMcFly Le meilleur film sur le Che qu'on puisse voir, même s'il ne parle pas du Che, ou alors, il en parle d'une façon indirecte. J'ai trouvé ce film très beau, très réaliste, avec pas mal d'humour, un jeu d'acteurs quasi irréprochable et un coup d'oeil sur la réflexion qu'a éveillé ce type de voyage aux deux personnages. Walter Salles signe là un très bon film, qui en vaut bien le coup d'oeil. 4/5.
• Benoist R. A voir, ce film est agréablement surprenant ;)
• Themistocle_480 Bon film, très beau film même. Un certain manque de rythme, de cohérence et même de suspense: le film peine à trouver son fil conducteur, il semble par moment perdu à l'image de ses deux aventuriers. Pourtant, ce mélange de poésie et d'humour, de beauté visuelle et d'émotion, d'humanisme et de spiritualité, finit par prendre. On assiste à la fois à la maturation de deux êtres et à une plongée culturelle et "politique" dans l'Amérique latine. à partir d'une autobiographie pas géniale (bien que plaisante), Walter Salles réalise un film assez marquant, où la découverte de la vie et de destins croisés cottoie la lutte des classes et la prise de conscience. à voir! 4/5
• Selah Gael Garcia Bernal incarne parfaitement cet homme à valeur historique !Magnifique film qui nous emmène en voyage !
• Benoist R. heuuuu pour ma part, cet ouvrage est à voir absolument, justement parcequ'il retrace un court parcours. Le parcours certainement le plus interessant du Ché, sa jeunesse de medecin avant l'esprit révolutionnaire !
• dydy-2306 Assez sympa !
• Syoul33 Franchement à voir. Bon c'est pas un chef-d'oeuvre non plus mais ça reste à voir. 4/5

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En 1952, deux étudiants en médecine argentins, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna - que l'on connaîtra quelques années plus tard sous le nom de Che - et Alberto Granado, partent à moto faire le tour de l'Amérique du Sud pendant leurs vacances. C'est sur la vieille Norton datant d'avant-guerre d'Alberto, qu'ils entament leur périple. Un moyen de transport qui leur vaut un franc succès auprès des filles. Hélas, au Chili, la machine rend l'âme. Nullement découragés, les deux amis poursuivent leur route à bord de camions, rencontrant ainsi les habitants des pays qu'ils traversent. Ils prennent conscience de la dure réalité du monde et constatent la misère dans laquelle vivent les Indiens employés par les compagnies minières...

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En 1952, deux jeunes Argentins, Alberto Granado et Ernesto Guevara, partent à la découverte de l'Amérique latine. Ils débutent leur périple sur une vieille moto baptisée "La Vigoureuse". La confrontation avec la réalité sociale et politique des différents pays visités altère la perception que les deux amis ont du continent. Cette expérience éveillera de nouvelles vocations associées à un désir de justice sociale.

Réalisé par : Walter Salles

Avec : Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna, Mercedes Morán

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Carnets de voyage

Dans les années 50, deux étudiants en médecine partent faire le tour de l'Amérique du Sud et découvrent les nombreuses facettes de ce continent gigantesque.

• De :  Walter Salles
• Avec :  Gael Bernal , Rodrigo de la Serna , Mía Maestro
• Pays :  États-Unis d'Amérique , Argentine

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Carnet De Voyage (Travel Journal) Paperback – August 3, 2004

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• Craig Thompson spent three months traveling through Barcelona, the Alps, and France, as well as Morocco, researching his next graphic novel, Habibi . Spontaneous sketches and a travelogue diary document his adventures and quiet moments, creating a raw and intimate portrait of countries, culture and the wandering artist.
• Print length 224 pages
• Language English
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• Publication date August 3, 2004
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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Top Shelf Productions (August 3, 2004)
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CRAIG THOMPSON was born in Michigan in 1975. He is the writer and artist of the critically acclaimed graphic novels Blankets, Habibi, Space Dumplins, Good-bye, Chunky Rice, and Carnet de Voyage. He was awarded three Eisner awards, three Harvey awards, two Ignatz awards, and a Grammy nomination for album cover artwork on Menomena’s Friend and Foe. He lives in Los Angeles with partner Sierra Hahn and cat Momo.

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By Helen Shaw

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CARNET DE VOYAGE By Craig Thompson 256 pp. Drawn and Quarterly. $21.95.

Back in 2004, Craig Thompson was coming into his own as a serious graphic novelist. His intimate “Blankets ” — an autobiographical tale of first love, brotherly failure and lost faith — had won a number of awards, and his success was helping to move the graphic memoir into the American mainstream. He was also, though, slightly adrift: His girlfriend had just left him, and he wanted to get out of Portland, Ore., which was full of memories of her.

Thompson’s French publisher organized a book tour, and when other publishers in other countries piled on, the trip turned into an odyssey. To stay productive and to connect to a tradition popular with other artists, Thompson committed to recording a travel diary — or “Carnet de Voyage” — as he went, sketching every day. The result is a swiftly compiled record of his travels in Europe and Morocco (where he researched his long-gestating graphic novel “Habibi”). The sketchbook-cum-travelogue is quite a dreamy object — it doesn’t use many separated panels, and drawing often fills the page, black crosshatched edges feathering and dissolving into the ragged white surround. Like others of its type, the book encourages the eye and mind to wander. This is travel in its exploded view. Close-ups of French friends jostle alongside wide-screen landscapes; little notes and arrows carry us along Thompson’s stream-of-consciousness; there’s a page on how to wind a turban, complete with steps.

Thompson’s other work can be overwrought; “Habibi,” for instance, is a claustrophobic experience, with self-consciously exquisite decoration and Orientalist fantasy crowding the pages, like vines grown too big in the hothouse. “Carnet de Voyage,” though, was made at such incredible speed — it was already at the publisher while he was still touring — that it corrects for some of that laboriousness. Thompson’s drawings are still lush and considered, flowing across the pages from his Pentel brush-pen, but the book is looser, sweeter, more suggestive than his other pieces. Yet it’s not all sweet. He often hates the trip: He’s torn about his exchanges with people in Morocco, especially when they demand money from him or he’s made to realize that they consider his portraiture intrusive. It’s clear that his subjects believe that allowing him to draw them entitles them to something — and this leaves Thompson deeply uncomfortable.

The reissued diary now includes a postscript (and postgraph) of the rest of the trip, including updates from a 2016 return visit for his “Space Dumplins” tour and a few sketches of his hosts and friends from before the “Carnet” journey. Even 12 years later, Thompson’s last thought is of the woman who left him, the searching taproot of his 2004 despair. Though, one assumes, he has long moved on, the book closes with five “Melissa” drawings, a quintet of sleeping nude portraits that are simultaneously romantic and — as we’ve been trained to see by reading the book — invasive.

Because of the way the “Carnet” functions, because it was made quickly enough to seem relatively candid, we now know how much of Thompson’s mind is taken up with searching out and drawing women. His drawing and his libido are tied up together, and it explains the expressive, caressing quality of his line. Less delightful is the way that, in a book full of wit and carefully observed detail, the women he desires all look the same. The women who are his friends look different; some of them I feel I’d recognize in the street. But sex confuses Thompson’s eye — and he sees the same curve of hip, the same bowed lip in girl after girl after girl. Explore as far as he might, that’s a blindness he does not escape.

Helen Shaw is a theater critic for 4Columns, Time Out New York and The Village Voice.

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Carnet de Voyage

Tegan O'Neil | May 4, 2018

The “New Expanded Edition” of Craig Thompson’s Carnet de Voyage uses the occasion of the reissue to allow the author to reframe his earlier narrative. It’s a good use of the device. Sketchbook narratives are odd hybrids that assemble power from being intentionally a little bit of this , a little bit of that – Carnet de Voyage is a sketchbook he kept while traveling across Europe in 2004. It’s a book that chronicles its own creation, usually an interesting process to watch unfold.

Thankfully Thompson is aware of just how problematic his earlier incarnation actually was: “I CRINGE at the character I am on the page,” he says in the new Afterward. “So NAVEL-GAZEY and codependent. My petty whinings are so INSIGNIFICANT compared to what’s going on in the world.” It’s funny, but it’s also true. The Thompson of 2004 was pretty insufferable. I remember 2004. I lived through Blanketsmania . It was A Time, certainly – a time of men and their sad romanticized boyhoods.

Because sketchbooks are already a kind of bricolage, it only makes sense that there’d be another chapter added at some point. It’s useful to understand that Thompson himself has learned something in the intervening years since producing these pages. The reason is that the original Carnet struggles in places against its creator’s youth. It’s no great slander to say that, at not yet thirty, Thompson was a young man. The book is about him beginning the process of growing and up and getting over himself, and its good to know he did, at least a little bit, in the intervening fourteen years.

As a genre travel narratives are both necessary and problematic in equal measure. Necessary because human beings need to understand one another, and anything that bridges those gaps is worthy of celebration. Problematic because there are so many ways to communicate difference in ways that hinder rather than enable understanding. For centuries books very similar to Thompson’s Carnet were able to define the parameters of the non-English speaking world more or less arbitrarily based on poor and often malicious transliterations of cultural practices in one part of the world to another part of the world.

Thompson is aware of this, to the extent that thinking through these problems also became central to Habibi , the book that followed Carnet and inherited from the earlier volume Thompson’s interest in North African culture and design. There’s a Catch-22 here and it’s central to the book and most books like it: young men who go overseas to gain a bit of maturity from a more worldly perspective sometimes learn that real maturity only begins with the insight that other peoples’ countries weren’t created to be backdrops for the musings of sensitive young men.

But of course the whole point of cartoonists releasing sketchbooks – any kind of sketchbooks, narrative or no – is the drawing. Thompson can certainly draw. I’ve my issues with the man’s body of work but his books still sit on my shelf, and they sit on my shelf because he knows how to draw really well. I like looking at his drawings even if I struggle sometimes to engage with the solipsism of his earlier material. 

That same solipsism gets a bit of a pass in Carnet, if only because the book is already autobiographical. Accusing it of solipsism would be a bit like yelling at fish for getting the carpet wet. As it is, bumming around two continents for a few months does wonders for Thompson. He gets sick, draws a lot of pretty girls, goes snowboarding, rides a camel. Sounds like a fun trip. There are worse ways to get out of your head.

Thompson is a smarter cartoonist than he is writer. If you think that’s a specious distinction when the person doing the writing is the same person doing the drawing, think about how effective Thompson’s sketches are throughout the volume, how expressive and curious and confident his lines are regardless of his tools or medium, and how at odds the technical virtuosity on display is with the lack of confidence expressed in every other element of his narrative. It’s an odd juxtaposition. He knew how to draw but was still a kid in so many ways.

The Thompson who finishes the book isn’t a kid anymore. He understands things like history and context a little bit better, ideas that are present in the original narrative, always pressing in at the corners, but which Thompson hadn’t yet found a way to engage with as things existing independent of their relationship to him. I actually closed the reissue thinking more highly of Thompson for having produced this updated volume, and for understanding that with an added dimension of fourteen years’ hindsight the Carnet has become a different kind of travel narrative altogether: a trip to the past. And the past is a foreign country, don’t y’know – they do things differently there. 

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Carnets de voyage

Dans les années 50, deux étudiants en médecine partent faire le tour de l'Amérique du Sud et découvrent les nombreuses facettes de ce continent gigantesque.

• De :  Walter Salles
• Avec :  Gael Bernal , Rodrigo de la Serna , Mía Maestro
• Pays :  États-Unis d'Amérique , Argentine