Killer Charisma

摘要

The name given to the venezuelan revolutionary Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez-could have stepped out of an espionage thriller, and in a way he did. The nickname came from Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel The Day of the Jackal, about an assassin hired to kill Charles de Gaulle. Later, Carlos' legend inspired elements in Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six and Robert Ludlum's Bourne novels. Now he gets his own movie epic: Olivier Assayas' grand, churning Carlos, which is being released both at its 51/2-hour length, as originally shown on French TV, and as a 165-minute greatest-hits version.