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South of the Border

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Based on 18 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Documentary
Written by:
Mark Weisbrot
Tariq Ali
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Release Date:
Theatrical: June 25, 2010
Running Time: 78 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Language(s): English | Spanish | Portuguese
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Tariq Ali, Raúl Castro, Hugo Chávez, and Rafael Correa
In January 2009, Oliver Stone travelled to Venezuela to interview President Hugo Chavez, and examine the way Chavez has been portrayed in the U.S. media. Was Chavez really the “anti-American” force the media claimed he was? Once the journey began, however, Stone and his crew found themselves going beyond Venezuela to several other countries, and interviewing seven Presidents in the region, telling a larger and even more compelling story. In casual conversation, Stone sits down with Presidents Chavez, Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner (Argentina), as well as her husband and ex-President Nestor Kirchner, Fernando Lugo (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and Raul Castro (Cuba). (Good Apple Productions)
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What The Critics Said
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Yes, Stone gets cozy with Hugo Chávez, soft-pedaling the Venezuelan president's crackdown tendencies, but he also captures South America in a paradigm shift, wrenching itself free of centuries of colonial control. The film is rose-colored agitprop, but it catches a current of history.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Ray Bennett
Good-humored, illuminating and without cant, Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone's documentary South of the Border is a rebuttal of what he views as the fulminations and lies of right-wing media at home and abroad regarding the socialist democracies of South America.
Read Full Review >Arizona Republic Kerry Lengel
Offers valuable historical, social and political context, particularly if you aren't an international-news junkie.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
But to be fair, Stone doesn't seem even to think he's offering the last word here. Rather, he's trying to offer the first word, or at least a first opportunity to hear the other side, unfiltered by television media.
Read Full Review >NPR Bob Mondello
Engaging enough as polemics go, but unlikely to change many minds.
Read Full Review >Time Out New York Keith Uhlich
The aural and visual overload that marks most of the director’s work is here in spades--few documentaries look and sound so distinctive.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
As anyone who remembers “JFK,” his 1991 film about the Kennedy assassination, can attest, Mr. Stone has his own paranoid tendencies, but they are muted in this provocative, if shallow, exaltation of Latin American socialism.
Read Full Review >Movieline Michelle Orange
Though he lavishes praise on his subjects for being hyper-masculine and free-thinking, Stone is downright girlish in his devotion, scoffing at charges made against the leaders rather than examining them.
Read Full Review >New Orleans Times-Picayune Mike Scott
Sure, it's an interesting scene as he (Stone) chews the fat with Raul Castro, and coca leaves with Bolivia's Evo Morales. But his South of the Border can't be taken seriously, muchacho -- and if you think it can, well, I've got a primo cigar factory in Havana to sell you.
Read Full Review >Empire Adam Smith
Stone’s film could have allowed political voices that are rarely present to get a fair, and critical hearing. Instead he near smooches them to death.
Read Full Review >Boxoffice Magazine Mark Keizer
Stone embarrasses himself by backing the wrong horse and then making a weak case for him.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Joe Neumaier
Unabashedly one-sided, this biography of Chávez - and several other Latin American politicians - does raise some valid concerns about what Stone calls the "manipulative power of the media." So it's too bad he's as guilty of partisanship as the right-wing outlets he reviles.
Read Full Review >Variety Jay Weissberg
The documentary offers little genuine information and no investigative research, adopting a style even more polemical than Stone’s earlier docus on Fidel Castro and Yasser Arafat.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Corliss
The 70-minute movie -- which was co-written by the British-Pakistani commentator Tariq Ali, author of the 2006 study "Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope," and photographed in part by docu-doyen Albert Maysles -- is amateur night as cinema, as lopsided and cheerleadery as its worldview.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
Stone’s film, more an act of boosterism than inquiry, is a tremendous missed opportunity.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
Stone praises Latin America for turning toward "government of the people" (yet ignores Castro's lack of interest in democracy). But it's no wonder he's in such a sunny mood: We see him grow increasingly giddy while chewing coca leaves with Morales (a coca farmer who wants to make cocaine legal).
Read Full Review >Village Voice Karina Longworth
South of the Border's subjects are masters at cooking bullshit, and Stone just eats it up.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.7 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes
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