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Film: Documentary Terror's Advocate

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Jacques Vergès' job is a dirty one, but someone's got to do it. The French-Vietnamese anti-colonialist communist has acted as defense attorney for some of history's greatest pariahs: Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, Carlos the Jackal, Slobodan Milošević, Algerian terrorists — he's even offered to represent George W. Bush (as long as he pleads guilty). In Terror's Advocate, new-wave filmmaker Barbet Schroeder (Single White Female, 1992; Général Idi Amin Dada: Autoportrait, 1974) searches for the motivation behind Vergès' enigmatic professional choices and examines the gap between his public and political personas, all while allowing shadowier themes to float to the surface.

– Joe Rudkin