Carlos - NYT Critics' Pick
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Édgar Ramírez plays the title role in Olivier Assayas’s “Carlos.”
The Days, Nights and Years of the Jackal: The Tale of a Terrorist
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: October 14, 2010
About 15 minutes into “Carlos,” Olivier Assayas’s excited, exciting, epic dramatization about the international terrorism brand known as Carlos the Jackal, the title character takes a long, loving, vainglorious look in the mirror at his naked body. It’s 1974 and after a bungled assassination attempt and an ineffectual bombing, Carlos has just headed down the flamboyant career path — riddled with bodies, rutted by explosions and festooned with publicity — that will inspire pulp fictions, detailed biographies, hyperventilated conspiracy theories and lasting myths. As he luxuriates in his own image, you see how Carlos saw himself: the terrorist as pinup. More
