#582: ASSAYAS, Olivier: Carlos (2010)

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ASSAYAS, Olivier (Germany)
Carlos [2010]
Spine #582
Blu-ray


Carlos, directed by Olivier Assayas, in an epic, intensely detailed account of the life of the infamous international terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sánchez — also known as Carlos the Jackal. One of the twentieth century's most wanted fugitives, Carlos was committed to violent left-wing activism throughout the seventies and eighties, orchestrating bombings kidnappings, and hijackings in Europe and the Middle East. Assayas portrays him not as a criminal mastermind but as a symbol of seismic political shifts around the world, while the magnetic Édgar Ramirez brilliantly embodies him as a swaggering global gangster. Criterion presents the complete, uncut, director-approved, five-and-a-half hour version of Carlos.

339 minutes
Color
5.1 Surround
in English, Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, and Russian
2:35:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2011
Director/Writers


Based on an original idea by Daniel Leconte.
Screenplay by Olivier Assayas and Dan Franck.

Film Rating (0-60):

60

The Extras

The Booklet

Forty-two page booklet featuring essays by critics Colin MacCabe and Greil Marcus, as well as a timeline of Carlos’s life and biographies of selected figures portrayed in the film, written by Carlos’s historical adviser, Stephen Smith.

Commentary

Selected-scene commentary featuring DP Denis Lenoir.

Video interviews

With director Assayas, actor Ramírez, and Lenoir.
Carlos: Terrorist Without Borders

An hour-long documentary on the career of Carlos.
Archival interview

With Carlos associate Hans-Joachim Klein, by Jean-Marcel Bougreau and Daniel Leconte.
Maison de France

A feature-length documentary on a Carlos bombing not included in the film.
Twenty-minute

Making-of documentary on the film’s OPEC raid scene.
Original theatrical trailer

Extras Rating (0-40):

39

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