Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Edgar RamírezIlich Ramírez Sánchez ('Carlos')
- Alexander ScheerJohannes Weinrich
- Nora WaldstättenMagdalena Kopp
- Talal JurdiKamal al-Issawi ('Ali')
- Christoph BachHans-Joachim Klein ('Angie')
- Julia HummerGabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann ('Nada')
- Ahmad KaabourWadie Haddad
- Fadi Abi SamraMichel Moukharbel
- Rodney El HaddadAnis Naccache ('Khalid')
- Antoine BalabaneGénéral al-Khouly
Recommendations
- 100
Variety
Bravura narrative filmmaking on a hugely ambitious scale, Carlos is a spectacular achievement. - 100
Village Voice
Carlos is nevertheless a movie that one can somehow remember vividly for months. Much of this power is due to the whiplash widescreen cinematography (oft-mistaken for DV), the hopped-up editing, and, not least, Ramirez's aptly arrogant, fully transfixing, Method-style turn. - 100
Time Out
Though it runs an epic five-and-a-half hours (it was made for French TV), Carlos books like no film since "Goodfellas." You will not be bored, ever. - 100
Los Angeles Times
Hypnotic and sprawling five-hour-plus piece of cinematic genius. - 100
Wall Street Journal
One of the high points of last month's Telluride Film Festival was, as I wrote at the time, spending 5½ hours in a darkened theater-with one short break around the four-hour mark-to watch Olivier Assayas's shocking and edifying epic. - 91
The A.V. Club
Carlos is mostly tense and thrilling, revealing the poisonous side of global citizenship. - 90
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Shot by shot, scene by scene, it's a fluid and enthralling piece of work. I wasn't bored for a millisecond. - 90
Movieline
It's a tricky feat, channeling the glamour of a famous international terrorist without glamorizing him. But damned if French filmmaker Olivier Assayas doesn't pull it off with Carlos.
