American Cinematographer - September 2004 - 59

The Motorcycle Diaries, shot by Eric Gautier, AFC,
charts a transformative trip through South America taken

by two

young men

in 1952.

by Jean Oppenheimer
Unit

photography by Paula Prandini
The

Diaries charts

eight-month,
cross-continent journey shared
by a young Argentine medical

Ihe new film The Motorcycle
an

student, Ernesto Guevara de la
(Gael Garcia Bernal), and his
friend, 29-year-old biochemist
Serna

Alberto Granado

(Rodrigo de la

Serna), in 1952. Intended as a break
from their studies, the trip ends up

transforming Ernesto's life, eventu¬
ally inspiring one of the great social
and political movements of the 20th
century - he subsequently gained
fame as revolutionary leader Che
Guevara.

46

September 2004

shoot,

production's 16-week

which

October 2002

stretched
to

from

ception of the world and fueled
to change society.

their desire

"That's the main

February 2003,

took Brazilian director Walter Salles,
French
cinematographer Eric

Gautier, AFC, and their

along
almost the same route followed by
Guevara and Granado. Riding an
aging Norton 500 motorcycle, affec¬
tionately dubbed "La Poderosa"
(The Mighty One), the two young,
upper-middle-class men traveled
through Argentina, Chile and Peru;
the people they met along the way
crew

and the conditions in which those

people lived altered the duo's

per¬

movement

of the film: the end of adolescence
and the

discovery of the human
reality of South America," says
Gautier, who sat down with AC at
the Cannes Film Festival last

May.

There, and in phone conversations
from his home in Paris, the director
of

photography talked about how
picture's look and feel reflect the
men's inner journey. "At the begin¬
ning, when they are leaving their
familiar surroundings in the big
city, their attitude is carefree and
the



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