TIFF Review: 'Eva Doesn't Sleep' Starring Gael García Bernal And Denis Lavant

Anyone struggling with inspiration for a story would do good to open up a history book. That's perhaps the most salient takeaway from Pablo Aguero's "Eva Doesn't Sleep," a film brimming with potential, splashed with moments of technical brilliance, but feeling dispiritingly incomplete by the time it ends. Eva Peron, Argentinian champion of women's and worker's rights in the '40s, became a legend on the day she died in 1952. She became a symbol of change for an entire class of people, and for 25 years after her death, still led their hearts and minds. An entire movement (Peronism) was dedicated to her and her husband Juan's honor, and right before she died at the young age of 33, she was named "Spiritual Leader of the Nation" by Congress. All the succeeding country's military leaders stood in her shadow for decades, and the unbelievably true story of what happened to her body is the main focus of Aguero's film. 

In an effort to capture the larger-than-life...