Terror's Advocate- Film Society

This film was an excellent glimpse into a criminal lawyers life. Barbet Schroeder is able to create a documentary of Verges most controversial trials. At the Beginning of the film it says this is Barbet Schroeder take on Verges, at the end of the film I did not really get a clear vision of Schroeder's opinion of Verges. Verges seems to me to get caught up in his clients lives. He seems to get possessed with their ideas and strong opinions of government. It was very interesting to know he disappeared for 12 years and was just in Paris, yet no one has the whole story on what he was doing during those years. Verges also was married and had kids with one of his clients he represented early in his career. She was an Algerian "freedom fighter" who bombed a cafe and killed lots of people. Verges thought she had done the right thing and was able to get her and the rest of her group off of death row. Verges ended up leaving her and his kids out of the blue, I think he got bored with her since she was still not doing "terrorist" activities. Verges is able to persuade courts into shorting or recalling sentences on his clients. I won't deny his talent as a lawyer, he is someone who would be able to sell ice to an Eskimo.