A ghost story as much about the vanity inherent to international stardom as it is coming to terms with grief and death.
The film explores the extent to which Olivier Assayas’s characters have always found, and lost, their identities.
Fittingly enough, he who lives by the balls ends up pinched by the balls.
Carlos is always most revealing when watching the Jackal act and react rather than recite Marxist chestnuts.