A new one sheet offers the iconic image of Benicio del Toro as the Argentine doctor turned revolutionary and gives the split-in-two release dates of January, February 2009.

The tagline however, “Everyone Knows the Icon, Few Know the Man” is an interesting marketing fabrication. I managed to catch both parts in a screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, and personally I didn’t think it gave all that much about the personal life of Ernesto Guevara. It was more how he was an interlocking piece into the ecosystem of revolution in Cuba and South America at the time. The film is more a Revolution 101 piece than a traditional biopic. And this is a good thing. I happy that Steven Soderbergh took an HBO’s The Wire approach rather than the Walk the Line approach. Things are far more analytical and detached viewing here than the warm and fuzzy emotional approach which would have been an uphill battle considering the polarized opinions of history and myth.

It is very much worth seeing both parts when they arrive in the cinema on as big of a screen that is possible. Seeing them together I do not believe is critical, as they are quite separate films. A very, very good piece of cinema that has the added bonus of showing of the new “Red” HD camera system. The cinematography looks ‘alien’ yet amazing - A similar effect as when I saw Michael Mann’s Collateral for the first time.