Bernal shines top dramas

HANG onto your seats as we follow Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara (the brilliant Gael Garcia Bernal) in The Motorcycle Diaries.

Together with Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna) they embark on a journey of discovery on a motorbike through Latina America, a trip that changes their social and political outlook.

This is a wonderful film, directed with great assurance by Walter Salles, but the dominant star is Bernal.

Drama ****

Bernal also turns up in Pedro Almódovar’s Bad Education, as Angel Andrade, an actor who teams up with his childhood friend, now film director, Enrique Goded (Fele Martinez).

Together they work on developing a short story into film, but become lovers, delving deeply into their past where all is not what it appears as the suspense builds.

Drama ****