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The life of Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal is just too big to fit into one film. That was the conclusion reached by director Olivier Assayas upon researching what would become a five-and-a-half hour epic about the man, which was first shown as a miniseries in Europe before showing as one massive film at Cannes earlier this spring. For the convenience of those with more modest attention spans, there is a more streamlined two-and-a-half-hour version of the film. But for the truly ambitious, the mammoth full cut is on a roadshow tour that hits the AFI this week.
