South of the Border (2009)

Directed by

Oliver Stone

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

12

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 42 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Oliver Stone and his crew travel through South America to examine the rise of left-leaning leaders like Hugo Chavez. They interview several presidents to counter what Stone sees as biased media coverage in the US and Europe. The film acts as a political road movie explaining the region's recent turn to the left.

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What happens

South of the Border is a 2009 American documentary film directed by Oliver Stone. The documentary premiered at the 2009 Venice Film Festival. Writer for the project Tariq Ali calls the documentary "a political road movie". The film has Stone and his crew travel from the Caribbean down the spine of the Andes in an attempt to explain the "phenomenon" of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, and account for the continent's "pink tide" leftward tilt. A key feature is also Venezuela's recent Bolivarian revolution and Latin America's political progress in the 21st century. Stone stated that he hopes the film will help people better understand a leader who is wrongly ridiculed "as a strongman, as a buffoon, as a clown." In addition to Chávez, Stone sought to flesh out several other Latin American presidents whose policies and personalities generally get limited, or according to Stone, biased media attention in the United States and Europe, notably: Evo Morales of Bolivia; Cristina Kirchner and former president Néstor Kirchner of Argentina; Rafael Correa of Ecuador; Raúl Castro of Cuba; Fernando Lugo of Paraguay; and Lula da Silva of Brazil. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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