Oliver Stone's South of the Border
It’s fitting that Oliver Stone’s newly mustachioed face makes him look sort of like a South American politician. That’s because his just-out documentary, South of Border , is an up-close and admiring look at a group of South American politicians.
It will come as no shock to anyone who is aware of Stone’s politics and his film-making to learn that those politicians, including Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Evo Morales of Bolivia, lean solidly to the left. Or that Stone’s documentary is being torched by conservative media.
That’s nothing new for the screenwriter, director and filmic provocateur who has roiled the political waters with many of the more than two dozen movies he has written, produced or directed. That list includes Salvador (1986), Platoon (1986), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), JFK (1991), Nixon (1995) and W (2008).
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