carlos
May 20, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
The sheer ambition of this film may intimidate some, and until you are fully immersed in the world of Carlos it’s easy to doubt that any movie could justify a 5-and-a-half-hour running time.
Carlos does — and then some. (Bring on the sequel!)
This saga from director Olivier Assayas spans the globe over a period of three decades, trailing the elusive mercenary terrorist nicknamed only Carlos (dubbed later by the press “Carlos the Jackal”) as he cuts a bloody swath of rubble through Europe and the Middle East from the early 1970s to the mid-1990s.
Venezuelan actor Edgar Ramirez (previously the assassin villain of The Bourne Ultimatum) does transformative work here, capturing the early idealism and its slow decomposition as a man who is equal parts rage and intelligence finds his evil acts softening that hardened soul into a mush of vanity and self-pity.
What’s amazing about Carlos is that is asks nothing of moviegoers but their attention, passes no judgment on Carlos, and allows the aftermaths of his deeds to speak for themselves. And they do. Loudly.
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