South of the Border

Released Jun 25, 2010

1h 18m

Documentary

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Filmmaker Oliver Stone interviews Venezuela's Hugo Chávez, Brazil's Lula da Silva and other leaders, in an examination of social and political movements in South America.

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Tom Long

Detroit News

What's frustrating about the film is that even though it's clear Stone is making a number of valid and important points about both media manipulation and America's untoward political influence, he's also so obviously biased in his reporting.

Oct 2, 2010

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Ethan Gilsdorf

Boston Globe

Stone has a crucial, overlooked viewpoint to impart, but as a documentary filmmaker, his content and technique are not terribly engaging.

Rated: 2/4

Sep 30, 2010

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London Evening Standard

Risks alienating even those who instinctively side with [Stone's] political agenda.

Rated: 2/5

Aug 3, 2010

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Andrea Hubert

NME (New Musical Express)

...a brilliantly made film, as one would expect, articulated by a master filmmaker and a brave and admirable pioneer for democracy.

Rated: 4/5

May 19, 2021

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Mattie Lucas

From the Front Row

As an examination of the geopolitical intricacies of a South America, South of the Border is a fascinating work.

Rated: 3.5/4

Aug 5, 2019

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Kaleem Aftab

The List

Stone achieves his goal of challenging the orthodoxy on Chávez and socialism in an engrossing and entertaining manner.

Rated: 4/5

Nov 6, 2018

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camille l

Malgré une ouverture très Michael Moorienne où une journaliste se ridiculise en direct en confondant deux termes qui n'ont rien à voir, South of the Border n'est pas un très grand documentaire. En effet, après des films pourtant très modérés sur JFK, Nixon et W. Bush, Oliver Stone oublie d'incorporer à cette hagiographie d'Hugo Chavez la retenue qu'on lui oublie souvent. A cause de cela, South of the Border est plus long qu'intéressant et seule Cristina Kirchner a des choses vraiment intéressantes à dire. Il n'y a même plus la radicalité technique de Comandante pour vanter quelque vertu cinématographique.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

Or It's Just Kind of Meh...

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/06/23

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Audience Member

Oliver Stone explores the current Bolivarian Revolution that is sweeping across South America. A good documentary but he fails to answer the regions notorious human rights vitiations.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/20/23

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Audience Member

This is an awesome documentary. Highly recommended.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Audience Member

It's engaging but Stone spends too much time asking the obvious--at least he lets the leaders speak. It's not Errol Morris but it's not Michael Moore at his worst, either, it's simply a good movie if one is interested but knows little of past American relations with their "friends" to the south.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/14/23

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Audience Member

If you can get past the annoying translators speaking english behind the backs of some very powerful south american leaders and Oliver Stones penchant for smoosing them during his interviews it does portray a side that is not covered by the worlds media which depicts his subjects as dictators. It's useful to see these men and women shown in a different light and the fact that they are articulate in their answers.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/01/23

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Synopsis

Filmmaker Oliver Stone interviews Venezuela's Hugo Chávez, Brazil's Lula da Silva and other leaders, in an examination of social and political movements in South America.

Director: Oliver Stone
Producer: Chris Hanley, Serge Lobo
Screenwriter: Mark Weisbrot, Tariq Ali
Distributor: Cinema Libre Studio
Production Co: New Element Productions, Good Apple Productions, Muse Productions, Ixtlan Corporation, Pentagrama Films
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 25, 2010, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 8, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $166.6K
Runtime: 1h 18m