Filmmaker directed a film either complaisant or load

Brilliant French films at Cannes film festival continues unabated. With "Carlos", feature more than five and a half hours, Olivier Assayas signs one of his best films, if not the best.

Filmmaker directed a film either complaisant or load. Beautifully used by actor Edgar Ramírez, he managed to identify, despite areas of shadow, the psychological springs of that which has fascinated for years the "revolutionary" activists of his generation. A myth and a permanent threat to the global geopolitical balance.

The first part focuses on the early days of the most notorious terrorist of his era, from the moment where Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, militant Palestinian pro of Venezuelan origin, performs a series of bombings in London before moving to Paris, where he will act in Europe on behalf of the Popular Front for the liberation of Palestine. He organized several operations including the firing of rockets at Orly on the Israeli company El Al aircraft or the taking of hostages at the Embassy of France in the Hague by the Red Army militants Japanese. Pressed by the DST, which begins to look at him, he kills two French police before to take refuge in the Yemen of the South, hub for pro Palestinian terrorist training.

The second part deals with essentially the spectacular hostage of the Ministers of oil, OPEC meeting in Vienna. After an incredible Odyssey by plane and did have permission to land in Iraq or Libya, it agrees to release his hostages to Algiers for a huge ransom. But, in doing so, he broke with the orders of the PFLP, who were executing the taken hostage as the enemies of the Arab cause. Carlos becomes a mercenary that currency services to the Syria or the Soviet Union and its satellites.

The third part, the highest, traces the slow descent into the underworld of a terrorist abandoned its camp. After having been the hub of the trafficking in weapons, stirred Fortune put at its disposal to destabilize Western countries from its base in Budapest, Carlos out of the game after the fall of the Berlin wall. It is no more for its masters of yesterday and found refuge in Sudan, where he hopes to be remembered. There, désoeuvré, he drinks heavily, grows at the surrender to cosmetic surgery to clear unnecessary kilograms, to the day where the DST, taking advantage of his visit to the hospital, will the disbursing to the France.

Dramatic end in the end, also fever that mastered, will this "Carlos" do date. Need certainly to Olivier Assayas this amplitude in the period to give the best of himself without sacrificing style on the altar of the television imperative. Because if "Carlos" was shot for the small screen - the first part of the series passed yesterday Wednesday on Canal , three hours after the Cannes screening of the triptych-, it is a real film. A great film. Of course, there was controversy, for whether this tour for the television series had its place on the Croisette. All that the film may not be distributed in the room for several months and in a format decreased by half. Unless the producers decide finally, as in the US, come out in its entirety. After all, Marco Tullio Giordana, beautiful film "Our best years", has been shown in room with two long episodes. With the success we know.