The Motorcycle Diaries

Showings

The Roxy Theater Screen 2 Mon, Feb 14, 2022 7:30 PM
Film Info
Series:World View: Cultures in Words
Rating:R
Run Time:126 min
Release Year:2004
Genre:Drama
Original Language:Spanish
Subtitles:Subtitled
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Walter Salles
Cast Members:Gael Garcia Bernal, Rodrigo De la Serna, Mia Maestro

Description

The World View Film series, hosted by Global & Cultural Affairs in ARTS Missoula, is back at the Roxy Theater, featuring four movies about "Cultures in Words": films which reveal the power of the written world to change the world. Following each free screening, Humanities MT speaker Marisa Diaz-Waian will facilitate a community conversation, inspired by questions raised in the movie. The conversations aim to create a space for thoughtful dialogue, reflection, and sharing.  

On a break before his last semester of medical school, Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Gael García Bernal) travels with his friend Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna) from Brazil to Peru by motorcycle. The two men soon witness the great disparities in South America, encountering poor peasants and observing the exploitation of labor by wealthy industrialists. When they reach a leper colony in Peru, Ernesto's values have changed so much that he sides with the sufferers, forgetting his own comfort.