Yeah I mean Assayas isn't an arm of the French state. If you want to know if he has any left cred he also made The Wasp Network (2020) about the Cuban spies that infiltrated gusano terrorists. He also talked shit about The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) (about the Red Army Faction) because the film doesn't take a stance on whether the state killed them or not.
Anyways he is played pretty heroically honestly, played by a very sexy actor, gets sexy women, gets all the badass lines. However we should remember he isn't entirely sympathetic as he did kill and maim a lot of French workers to try to force the state to release his wife from prison.
Anyways deliberating whether someone is good or not as anti-dialectic, but the film definitely doesn't make him the villain.
I think there's a European version that cuts it into three movies, the first is everything pre-OPEC, the second one is just the OPEC raid, the third is everything after. I'd suggest just watching the first two rather than watching a shorter cut of the whole thing. The third is good too and really gives context to the whole thing, as you see the way the state responds to prevent/minimize the efficacy of terrorism.
is Carlos (2010) actually sympathetic? surprises me a little since it's a French-German production and they have him in jail
Yeah I mean Assayas isn't an arm of the French state. If you want to know if he has any left cred he also made The Wasp Network (2020) about the Cuban spies that infiltrated gusano terrorists. He also talked shit about The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) (about the Red Army Faction) because the film doesn't take a stance on whether the state killed them or not.
Anyways he is played pretty heroically honestly, played by a very sexy actor, gets sexy women, gets all the badass lines. However we should remember he isn't entirely sympathetic as he did kill and maim a lot of French workers to try to force the state to release his wife from prison.
Anyways deliberating whether someone is good or not as anti-dialectic, but the film definitely doesn't make him the villain.
thanks for such a detailed response, I'm definitely going to check it out even if it is five and half hours!
I think there's a European version that cuts it into three movies, the first is everything pre-OPEC, the second one is just the OPEC raid, the third is everything after. I'd suggest just watching the first two rather than watching a shorter cut of the whole thing. The third is good too and really gives context to the whole thing, as you see the way the state responds to prevent/minimize the efficacy of terrorism.