News > Soderbergh's Thoughts on Splitting "Che"

Steven Soderbergh realizes the difficulty in distributing a four-hour, two-part biopic about a certain Argentine revolutionary. He told the press at Cannes this week that he would consider splitting his movie "Che" into two parts, but only after the film ran for some time as a single entity.

"What I'd like to do is that if it opens in a town, you can see it for a week as one movie, and then you split it up," he said. "To me that would be an event." Surely, distributors are looking to the relative failure of last year's "Grindhouse," which was only just over three hours long, and underwent some splitting of its own. 

The full "Che" screened at Cannes this week with a single intermission. Soderbergh was on the defensive when people criticized the film's unconventional structure.

"I find it hilarious that people say that movies are too conventional," Soderbergh said, "and then when (something comes out) that isn't conventional, they seem annoyed."

Indeed. Soderbergh has been in this game long enough to know that you can't please them all. No release date has been set as of yet.

-David Morgan