7:40AM Defamer Hollywood | One tiny, loaded word pretty much summed up Wednesday at Cannes:
Che. Steven Soderbergh’s two-part, four-hour-plus biopic premiered last night to a sprawling range of reactions, most of which seem to embrace the challenging film (and particularly Benicio Del Toro’s performance as the title revolutionary) even while doubting the film would ever again screen again in its current version. Soderbergh and star Benicio Del Toro were only
slightly defensive when it came time to face the press:
“I find it hilarious that people always complain about movies being the same, and then when something different comes along — a film that deals the cards in a different way — they say why isn’t it more conventional?” [Soderbergh said.]
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