Carlos. IFC FilmsThe 63rd Cannes Film Festival -- Time Magazine
Beautiful stars, famous directors and a slew of the coming year's hottest film releases: Richard and Mary Corliss report on all the latest news and reviews from the world's glitziest film festival.
Olivier Assayas' 5-1/2-hour bio-pic of Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the Venezuelan revolutionary known as Carlos the Jackal, makes a suitable centerpiece to a Cannes festival that began with a hagiographic movie about the legendary bandit Robin Hood and included two films — the fictional Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and the documentary Inside Job — about the financial wizards who steal from rich and poor alike. Movies love to depict outlaws with agendas; and Carlos, whose guns and bombs killed dozens of people in the 1970s during his reign as the media's favorite terrorist, is a fascinating cinema subject: more dangerous than John Dillinger, a suitable adversary for Jason Bourne.
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My Comment: Do not be surprise if 20-30 years from now they will be glamorizing Osama bin Laden.
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