Carlos (2010)
Country: FR/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 165m
Director: Olivier Assayas
Cast: Edgar Ramirez, Ahmad Kaabour, Christoph Bach
Synopsis:
The career of Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal, from his involvement in the murder of two French policemen in Paris to his arrest in Sudan. An audacious and ruthless Marxist militant, he is also a survivor and a self-promoter, only too happy to adopt the rhetoric of his superiors to browbeat his own subordinates.
Review:
Like Munich a fascinating film about the people who kidnap, bomb and assassinate while the rest of us look on at our TV screens. Cut down from three made-for-television films totalling five hours, the narrative is a necessarily choppy ride at times, and the most effective section is undeniably the Opec conference hostage crisis. However, the film, which hinges on Ramirez's magnetic performance as the flawed and vainglorious hero, never really loses its grip on the viewer. One minor irritation: the frequent titles to gloss the identities of the many participants in the scenario are so positioned at extreme left and right of the frame that most cinemas' masking mechanisms must make them partially obscured.
Country: FR/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 165m
Director: Olivier Assayas
Cast: Edgar Ramirez, Ahmad Kaabour, Christoph Bach
Synopsis:
The career of Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal, from his involvement in the murder of two French policemen in Paris to his arrest in Sudan. An audacious and ruthless Marxist militant, he is also a survivor and a self-promoter, only too happy to adopt the rhetoric of his superiors to browbeat his own subordinates.
Review:
Like Munich a fascinating film about the people who kidnap, bomb and assassinate while the rest of us look on at our TV screens. Cut down from three made-for-television films totalling five hours, the narrative is a necessarily choppy ride at times, and the most effective section is undeniably the Opec conference hostage crisis. However, the film, which hinges on Ramirez's magnetic performance as the flawed and vainglorious hero, never really loses its grip on the viewer. One minor irritation: the frequent titles to gloss the identities of the many participants in the scenario are so positioned at extreme left and right of the frame that most cinemas' masking mechanisms must make them partially obscured.
Country: FR/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 165m
Director: Olivier Assayas
Cast: Edgar Ramirez, Ahmad Kaabour, Christoph Bach
Synopsis:
The career of Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal, from his involvement in the murder of two French policemen in Paris to his arrest in Sudan. An audacious and ruthless Marxist militant, he is also a survivor and a self-promoter, only too happy to adopt the rhetoric of his superiors to browbeat his own subordinates.
Review:
Like Munich a fascinating film about the people who kidnap, bomb and assassinate while the rest of us look on at our TV screens. Cut down from three made-for-television films totalling five hours, the narrative is a necessarily choppy ride at times, and the most effective section is undeniably the Opec conference hostage crisis. However, the film, which hinges on Ramirez's magnetic performance as the flawed and vainglorious hero, never really loses its grip on the viewer. One minor irritation: the frequent titles to gloss the identities of the many participants in the scenario are so positioned at extreme left and right of the frame that most cinemas' masking mechanisms must make them partially obscured.