At the start of his career, French defense lawyer Jacques
Vergès represented the bomb-planting Algerian women immortalized in The Battle of Algiers. He so identified with
their anticolonial cause that he even married one of them. But
by the ’80s, he was friends with members of the Khmer Rouge and
accepting huge infusions of cash from the man responsible for the
murder of Congolese nationalist Patrice Lumumba. This movie is
packed with so much glamour and carnage you won’t believe it’s a
documentary about one man. (Varsity, 4329 University Way
NE, 781-5755. 9:40 pm, $9.25.)

Annie Wagner is The Stranger's former film editor. She was born and raised in Capitol Hill, but has since lived in such far-flung locales as Phoenix, AZ, Charlottesville, VA, and Wedgwood. After graduating...