4.5 out of 5: Did you miss the best Clint Eastwood movie? Catch it at the cinema!

What is it about? Walt Kowalski is a Korean War veteran, an inflexible, bitter man full of old-fashioned prejudices. After years of working on an assembly line, he lives a reclusive life, spending his days pottering, hanging, and drinking beer.

His neighborhood is now populated by Asian immigrants who hate him, and Walt continues to live up to his countless hatreds, until the day a Hmong teenager from the neighborhood tries to steal his precious Ford Gran Torino…

Writing!

Gran Torino is Clint Eastwood’s biggest success in France as a director, with 3.4 million viewers. It surpasses Million Dollar Baby (2005), a two-time Oscar winner and 3.2 million viewers in France, A Perfect World and Invictus, which each brought in 3.1 million viewers, and Beyond and its 1.9 million entries.

With an average of 4.5 out of 5, this is the best Clint Eastwood film according to AlloCiné viewers, who voted for other important works in his filmography, such as Sur la route de Madison and Ruthless.

A rumor about the return of Inspector Harry

When the construction of Gran Torino was announced, there were many rumors about the plot of this secret movie. The most reliable, provided by the site Not cool newsA new episode of the Inspector Harry saga is reported.

The author of a quasi-anonymous letter to the site explained that he met with Village Roadshow Pictures executives who were looking for the 1972 Gran Torino for a new Clint Eastwood film. He also wrote that the controversial feature film would be a thriller in which Inspector Harry Callahan would come out of retirement to hunt down his grandson’s killer, a man whose only car would be: a Ford Gran Torino from 1972!

At a press conference during the Cannes Film Festival, the filmmaker-turned-actor put the rumor to rest, saying that at 78, he was too old to return to the police force. However, there are some similarities between the hero of Gran Torino and the speedy cop who made Clint Eastwood famous (the icy gaze, the voice rougher than ever…).

Hmong

Gran Torino is the first American film about the Hmong, an Asian people originally from mountainous regions (18 clans spread across several Asian countries, including Laos, Vietnam and Thailand). The Hmong have their own cultural identity, their own religion, their own language. Clint Eastwood wanted the portrayal of the Hmong to be as authentic as possible in Gran Torino, which is why he cast only Hmong actors in the film. There are few actors of Hmong descent in the professional world of cinema. With the help of associations, the team had to do a lot of research in places where the Hmong community meets, such as churches, places where young people hang out…

Common zodiac!

John Carroll Lynch, aka The Barber in Gran Torino, was the prime suspect in David Fincher’s Zodiac. Inspector Harry, played by Clint Eastwood, tracked down a serial killer some thirty years ago, whose character was heavily inspired by The Zodiac Killer.

From June 7 to August 29, UGC cinemas celebrate 100 years of Warner Bros. with a special program of 100 studio masterpieces in 20 UGC cinemas across France throughout the summer at €8.50 per seat.

All programming at ugc.fr (https://www.ugc.fr/evenement.html?id=735):

UGC Ciné Cité les Halles: 1 film per day, or 84 films during the summer, and various events and entertainment to accompany this anniversary program.

UCG Ciné Cité Bercy: special retrospectives around franchises and filmmakers (Lord of the Rings, Christopher Nolan, DC Universe, etc.)

Dedicated programming in 18 cinemas in France on Saturday and Sunday evenings: UGC Ciné Cité Vélizy, UGC Ciné Cité Créteil, UGC Ciné Cité Cergy, UGC Issy les Moulineaux, UGC Ciné Cité La Défense, UGC Ciné Ciné Cité Créteil UGC Ciné Cité Parly, UGC Ciné Cité Noisy -le-Grand, UGC Ciné Cité Part-Dieu (Lyon), UGC Ciné Cité Internationale (Lyon), UGC Ciné Cité Atlantis (Nantes), UGC Ciné Cité Bordeaux, UGC Ciné Cité Cité Cité Cà CàC. Fleet (Bordeaux), UGC Talence (Bordeaux), UGC Ciné Cité Lille, UGC Ciné Cité Strasbourg, UGC Nancy.