2010 · thriller · biography · french
Carlos
Directed by Olivier Assayas5h 39m2010
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.
Our read: Carlos (2010) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded thriller · biography · french entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / biography, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- bleak
- cold
- twisty
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