The first CULT! evening of the year focuses on Olivier Assayas, with a screening of Carlos – the film.

The National Cinema Museum devotes this year’s first CULT! evening to the French film director Olivier Assayas with a screening of Carlos – the film, scheduled for Wednesday 12th January 2011 at 9 p.m., in Cinema Massimo’s Screen Three.

Premiered at the Cannes film festival, the Carlos television mini-series Olivier Assayas created for Canal+ was outstanding in the fact that it proved once more how it is sometimes a fine line that divides a certain kind of television and film. The series, with its five and a half hours of intense narrative, reveals the contradictions of what remains a mysterious and, at times unexplainable, character ­– the Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramirez Sanchez – and also reconstructs a vast and fiery page of contemporary history.

As well as showing the ‘reduced’ version that Assayas himself cut short for the silver screen, a complete version of the mini-series will be shown on Saturday 29th January 2011 at 3.30 p.m. Admission: 5.50/4.00/3.00 euros.