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Clint EastwoodPhotographie:
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Mark MancinaActeurs·trices:
Clint Eastwood, Dwight Yoakam, Fernanda Urrejola, Horacio Garcia Rojas, Sebestien Soliz, Ana Rey, Brytnee Ratledge, Alexandra Ruddy (plus)VOD (4)
Résumés(1)
Mike Milo, ancienne star de rodéo et éleveur de chevaux usé jusqu’à la corde, qui, en 1979, accepte une mission d’un de ses anciens patrons : aller chercher le jeune fils de ce dernier au Mexique pour le ramener aux États-Unis. Contraints d’emprunter des routes secondaires jusqu’au Texas, les deux hommes s’embarquent dans un périple dont ils n’ont pas mesuré les difficultés. Contre toute attente, le dresseur de chevaux désabusé croise d’anciennes connaissances et trouve sa propre forme de rédemption. (Warner Bros. FR)
(plus)Critiques (5)
Je ne savais pas trop quoi penser de Cry Macho. Clint Eastwood mérite certainement de l’admiration pour le fait que, même à un âge avancé (et au beau milieu d’une pandémie), il puisse continuer à se tenir des deux côtés de la caméra tout en ne perdant rien de son charme masculin. Puis, son film semble venir du cœur et contient pas mal de passages chaleureux. Maintenant, inutile de nous voiler la face : le niveau est vraiment médiocre avec un scénario incroyablement creux, des discours horriblement rigides et pas la moindre gradation de l’intrigue. Et il faut arriver au générique de fin pour réaliser que les quelques minutes qui ont précédé, avec le peu d’action qu’on y trouve, étaient en fait censées être la catharsis de tout le drame ! Malheureusement, ce film n'a rien de transcendental et déçoit par rapport à la renommée de son créateur. Espérons que la prochaine fois, Eastwood fera mieux que ça.
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Clint Eastwood embarks on a journey to Mexico to find his boss's son and bring him to America. The cocky teenager and the old curmudgeon don't get along, but on the way home they find they can learn a lot from each other. This time, Hollywood classic Eastwood made a very slow drama that relies on his charisma and nothing else. And unfortunately, it's not enough. Clint is still the man, but unfortunately the unoriginal and predictable plot trip him up. A mediocre and unremarkable film that you can do without and that Eastwood's filmography could do without.
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Clint Eastwood dives straight in — no fuss, just business. Within five minutes, we learn he's doing a favor for a wealthy friend by picking up his son deep in Mexico. It’s a bit of a stretch and lacks logic. And then, surprise, there's a romance with Clint in the lead. Interestingly, The Mule, made three years earlier with a similar premise, was more entertaining for me. Slow storytelling can be great, but the real issue here might be that annoying Mexican kid who could use a good smackdown.
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This seems rather underestimated by others. OK, it has a rather average story and a weird beginning, but then Clint takes things into hand and contemplates about getting old and passing on wisdom to the younger generation. Not such a wow as Grand Torino, but still way above the competition. This old man, oozing with charisma, teaches a kid to ride a horse, pulls a cute housewife and knows how to fight too. In fact, I like this more than I expected. Loser cops... Stupid bastards. If they had a brain, they’d be dangerous.
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Clint Eastwood's acting grand finale was undoubtedly Gran Torino. I take all his roles that came after that as an epilogue – a respectable epilogue of a guy who's only doing it for fun, for the love of film, because he just wants to. So I can't be surprised that he wanted to star once more, and in Cry Macho, a modern romantic western with a strongly naive plot that I think deliberately recalls Eastwood's first TV roles. No, it's certainly not a groundbreaking role, and the sight of a 90-year-old veteran is moving, whether that's the intention or not, but it was definitely worth watching. And then, of course, there's the other side of things, which is that Eastwood also directed. And directorially, Cry Macho stands up without turning a blind eye.
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