Carlos (Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] Reviews

The notorious terrorist career of Ilich Ramirez Sanchez who carved a destructive path through multiple countries in Europe and the Middle East during the 1970s and 1980s comes to vivid if somewhat muddled life in Olivier Assayas’ Carlos. Featuring a career-making performance in the title role and absorbing, beautifully executed recreations of some of the most potent terrorist acts of the latter half of the 20th century, Carlos is a one-of-a-kind achievement. Sprawling and at times unfocused, the film still holds the viewer transfixed as we witness power shifts, allegiances struck and abandoned, and a series of bombings, kidnappings, and hijackings which were par for the political course during those monumental years of global unrest.

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