Dir: Olivier Assayas
2010
*****
If a story is worth telling it is worth telling properly, especially when said story is based on factual events and real people. Olivier Assayas' Carlos (as in the Jackal) epic is perfect to the slightest little detail. Edgar Ramirez is perfectly cast as Ilich Ramírez Sánchez and gives the role his all. Indeed, the passion to tell the story correctly seems to be a shared one for everyone involved and the film and it's makers deserve the success and praise they received. At five and a half hours, Carlos the Jackal isn't the shortest of films but my eyes were firmly fixed to the screen for the entirety and not one minute is wasted.
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