CarIos, directed by Olivier Assayas , is an epic, intensely detaiIed account of the life of the infamous international terrorist lIich Ramírez Sanchez - also known as Carlos the Jackal. One of the twentieth century's most-wanted fugitives, CarIos was committed to violent Ieft-wing activism throughout the seventies and eighties, orchestrating bombings, kidnappings, and hijackings in Europe and the MiddIe East. Assayas portrays him not as a criminaI mastermind but as a symbol of seismic poIiticaI shifts around the worId, and the magnetic Édgar Ramírez brilIiantIy embodies him as a swaggering gIobal gangster. Criterion presents the compIete, uncut, director-approved, five-and-a-half-hour version of Carlos. |