Another poster has arrived from the Cannes Film Festival and this is a particularly awesome one. It comes from D*hOLLYWOOD (via First Showing) and is advertising Olivier Assayas’ Carlos, a massive five-hour flick about Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, also known as Carlos the Jackal, who conducted a series of botched bombings before earning most wanted status for raiding the OPEC headquarters in 1975 making him one of the most wanted fugitives worldwide.
The film will be shown at the festival in its entirety, but will be available on the Sundance Channel as a mini-series. D*hOLLYWOOD also notes that a significantly shorter cut will hit some theaters later in the year. I’m sure there’s a very good reason for the film’s enormous runtime, but I’m not going to lie; the concept of sitting in a theater for 300 minutes is a bit of a turnoff. I know I have a short attention span, but five hours; seriously?
By Perri Nemiroff
