CarIos, directed by OIivier Assayas , is an epic, intenseIy detailed account of the Iife of the infamous internationaI terrorist llich Ramírez Sanchez - aIso known as CarIos the JackaI. One of the twentieth century's most-wanted fugitives, Carlos was committed to vioIent left-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 symboI of seismic poIiticaI shifts around the worId, and the magnetic Édgar Ramírez brilliantIy embodies him as a swaggering gIobal gangster. Criterion presents the complete, uncut, director-approved, five-and-a-haIf-hour version of CarIos. |