This Daily Variety review caught my eye - they’re at Cannes looking at the movies in competition.

No doubt it will be back to the drawings board for “Che,” Steven Soderbergh’s intricately ambitious, defiantly nondramatic four-hour, 18-minute presentation of scenes from the life of revolutionary icon Che Guevara.

Here’s my thinking - if I were writing a satirical screenplay about filmmakers, and I wanted a crazy project that one of them was pushing at the peril of his own career, this is exactly the movie he’d be doing. I mean, isn’t the whole idea just delicious career suicide? This replaces my last nightmare project scenario, which was the story of the last hours of Christ performed entirely in Aramaic.

Soderbergh, bless his heart, alternates making movies he’d want to see with movies nobody would want to see, even him. You could call it a strategy, I guess.

-daniel k

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