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Tagline: "Mas alla del mito habla un hombre." Translation: "Beyond the myth, a man speaks," someday. The Verdict: Though Steven Soderbergh's four-hour epic, which won the Best Actor prize at Cannes for Benecio del Toro, still awaits a distribution deal, hope appears on the horizon — or on YouTube, where an unsubtitled trailer has appeared for the Spanish-language film. Thanks to some bad sound and the fact that we took French in high school, we don't really know what anyone's saying, but it sure looks pretty gorgeous — even if the multiple shots of dudes marching through fields suggest a slightly more meditative pace than we like in our four-hour epics. ( Soderbergh has reportedly rejected an offer that would require him to cut an hour.) Will it headline the New York Film Festival ? Will it ever get U.S. release? All the trailer offers is a mysterious Proximamente . Earlier: Is Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Che’ Headlining the New York Film Festival? ...