DECRYPTION – A binary analysis of Clint Eastwood's work would classify the director as a right-wing man who gradually turned left. This means ignoring the populist character of his cinema which goes beyond the left-right divide.
This article is taken from Figaro Special Edition “Clint Eastwood, the last of the Giants”.
Le Figaro
When the spotlight finally fades, what will be left of Clint Eastwood? Will he be seen as a giant of American cinema or a reactionary filmmaker who should be consigned to the dustbin of History? For a long time, until the beginning of the 1990s, the actor-director was considered unwatchable by the majority of critics: “ too fascist » ; « too macho “. In 1974, the magazine Positive will even go so far as to qualify as “ Mein Kampf de l'Ouest » them western The Man of the High Plains. Today, Eastwood would almost seem untouchable. Embalmed during his lifetime, he is considered one of Hollywood's last legends. But in our era of cancel culture, nothing says that his statue will not one day be taken down.
If Eastwood has nothing to do with the caricature that has sometimes been made of him, his cinema is no less…
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