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Seen on: 02/23/2011

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Carlos (2010)

Directed by Olivier Assayas

Biography | Crime | Drama

Most recently watched by sensoria

Overview

The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.

Rated NR | Length 339 minutes

Actors

Julia Hummer | Katharina Schüttler | Kida Khodr Ramadan | Udo Samel | Karl Fischer | Alexander Scheer | Jean-Baptiste Montagut | Laurens Walter | Jule Böwe | Eriq Ebouaney | Emmanuelle Bercot | Edgar Ramírez | Johann von Bülow | Anna Thalbach | Patrick Rameau | Robert Gallinowski | Susanne Wuest | Laëtitia Spigarelli | Rodney El Haddad | Olivier Cruveiller | Nicolas Briançon | Martha Higareda | André Marcon | Issam Bou Khaled | Fadi Abi Samra | Christoph Bach | Olivia Ross | Timo Jacobs | Jean-Baptiste Malartre | Alejandro Arroyo | Ahmad Kaabour | Guillaume Saurrel | Nora von Waldstätten | Abbes Zahmani | Georges Kern | Simon-Pierre Boireau | Razane Jammal | Talal El-Jordi | Antoine Balabane | Rami Farah | Aljoscha Stadelmann | Zeid Hamdan | Fadi Yanni Turk | Basim Kahar | Cem Sultan Ungan | Juana Acosta | Anton Kouznetsov | Yuka Hirata | Pierre-François Dumeniaud | Mohamed Ourdache | Carlos Chahine | József Tóth | Yanillys Pérez | Vincent Jouan | Ana María Durán | Samuel Achache | Laura Wilkinson | Hiraku Kawakami | Badi Abu-Shaqra

Viewing Notes

IMDB calls this a three-part mini series, but since it played limited runs in theaters as a full movie, I’m counting the whole three parts as a single movie.

At a running time of five hours and 19 minutes, it takes some dedication to watch this. I watched it over two nights: part one the first evening and parts two and three back-to-back on the second.

Though I felt the second half of the third part lagged a bit, the movie as a whole is excellent, reminding me at times of both The Baader Meinhof Gang and Battle of Algiers (both movies would make great companion pieces to this).

I highly recommend catching on Netflix Instant Watch. It makes it easier to watch when it’s naturally broken down into three parts, though I’d not have minded taking the entire thing in with one sitting.

Edgar Ramirez turns in a great performance as Carlos. Juana Acosta does a very nice turn as Amie de Carlos. I really hope she sees more Hollywood roles turning up in the near future.

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