Carlos - Prima parte

Edgar Ramirez amazes as the title terrorist in Olivier Assayas' immersive, involving, five-and-a-half-hour epic, available whole in theaters or in three parts on television.

Into a bit-stream world of 140-character communiqués, where two-hour movies are deemed tedious before the house lights go down, comes a defiant "Carlos." This hypnotic and sprawling five-hour-plus piece of cinematic genius from master French filmmaker Olivier Assayas lets its socio-geo-political tensions twist through two decades, beginning in the '70s, when the infamous, Venezuela-born international terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, code name Carlos, stalked his way across Europe. Rooted in a rich blend of historical fact and Assayas' imagination, the film unfolds in three parts and was designed from the outset to have a life both on the big screen and small. [...]

di Betsy Sharkey, articolo completo (7635 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 11 ottobre 2010