Tonight on TV: The best movie directed by Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood at the top of his game. His film, “Gran Torino”, is rebroadcast this August 14 on TF1, in the famous “Cine Sunday” box of the channel. Released in France in February 2009, four years after Clint Eastwood’s last appearance on the big screen in “Million Dollar Baby” (2004), this monument of the seventh art was crowned with success in dark rooms.

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An inflexible, bitter man steeped in old-fashioned prejudices

“Gran Torino” tells the story of Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood). After years of assembly line work, this former Korean War veteran, an inflexible, bitter man steeped in old-fashioned prejudices, lives withdrawn into himself, occupying his days with tinkering, hanging around and sipping beer. Apart from his dog Daisy, he only trusts his M-1, always clean, always ready for use…

His former neighbors have moved away or are long dead. His neighborhood is now populated by Asian immigrants whom he despises, and Walt dwells on his countless hatreds – against his neighbors, Hmong teenagers, Latinos and African Americans “who believe they make the law“, of his own children, who have become strangers to him.

Walt kills time as he can, waiting for the big departure, until the day when a Hmong teenager from the neighborhood tries to steal his precious Ford Gran Torino… When the young and shy Thao tries to steal it under pressure of a gang, Walt faces the gang, and in spite of himself becomes the hero of the district.

A critical and popular success

Crowned with the César for best foreign film in 2010, the feature film had attracted, in France alone, more than 3.41 million spectators. At the US box office, the film earned $146.2 million in revenue between December 12, 2008 and April 6, 2009. And as soon as it was released, it won over viewers, as evidenced by the excellent rating given by the audience on “Allocinated“*, with 4.5 out of 5 stars from 4,042 votes.

The press is just as dithyrambic. “Charlie Hebdo” paid tribute to the director at the time. “Eastwood demonstrates formal audacity and incredible freedom of tone, moving from tragedy (…) to comical (…) with the same elegance (…) ‘Gran Torino’ is quite simply miracle“, wrote the satirical newspaper. The editorial staff of “Télérama”, also conquered, greeted “the moving care with which Eastwood polishes his statue, his legacy“.

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Tonight on TV: The best movie directed by Clint Eastwood