Napa Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival 2008 : Clint Eastwood: A Life In Film

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Clint Eastwood: A Life In Film

2008

Categories: Cinema of Conscience

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Run time: 82 min. | France

When you talk about character arc in a movie, where someone's development and growth is an integral part of the story, you couldn't come up with a more dramatic real-life example than Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood. Over the course of five decades, Clint Eastwood has managed to avoid the pitfalls of the star system and wrest creative control of nearly every aspect of the filmmaking process from the corporate powers-that-be.

A 20-year acquaintance with the man and his work led French-born film historian and director Michael Henry Wilson to make this interesting film. Using the post-production of Eastwood's Oscar-winning World War II Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima as his springboard, Wilson engages the notoriously reticent Eastwood in a surprisingly easygoing and intimate dialogue about the ways in which the past shapes the present - be it biographical, historical or cinematic. Unique access not only to behind-the-scenes footage but also to Eastwood's own photo albums further colors Wilson's simple, earnest portrait of Eastwood as a genuine auteur.

As Wilson himself puts it, “[Eastwood] perpetuates the classic tradition of storytelling…one that value[s] character development, emotional range and a complex moral perspective….He's one of our last filmmakers making meaningful films for adults, films that challenge all our preconceived notions about justice, heroism and the American Way."

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