The Spectacle of Terrorism

Olivier Assayas's Carlos, a portrait of the guerrilla as a narcissistic cipher
by Richard Porton   posted Sep 23, 2010

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Édgar Ramírez in Carlos, directed by Olivier Assayas

KEYWORDS

Olivier Assayas  |  Carlos  |  violence  |  anarchist film  |  Cold War

THE AUTHOR

Richard Porton is one of the editors of Cineaste in New York. He is the author of Film and the Anarchist Imagination (Verso) and the editor of two forthcoming anthologies, On Film Festivals (Wallflower Press) and Arena 1: Cinema and Anarchism (PM Press).

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