Tonight on Netflix: Clint Eastwood’s best movie

A bitter, bitter, and lonely Korean War veteran, Walt Kowalski is retired and relies on only three things in life: his dog Daisy, his always clean and ready-to-go M-1, and his shiny Gran Torino, which he polishes with love. his garage.

Staunchly refusing to go to confession, as his wife asked before her death, or to listen to the suggestions of his sons, Walt also takes a very dim view of the arrival of Asian immigrants in his neighborhood. Things take a turn for the worse the day Thao, a young boy from a neighboring family, tries to steal his prized car under gang pressure.

• Tonight on Netflix: The best movie of all time

Forced by his big sister to come to work with Walt to make up for his wrongdoing, young Thao gradually befriends the old man.

In 2009, Clint Eastwood no longer has anything to prove to anyone.

The holy monster of the cinema, whose legend began long before his first full-length films as a director (when he recklessly painted his six-shooter under the Italian sun, in front of the lens of Sergio Leone), in turn, a lonely cowboy of the seventh art. He tried his hand at directing…brilliantly.

A series of gems, then great films, he successively signed his first Westerns The Man from the Plains, then the masterful Impitoyable, which won the Oscar for Best Director, The Moving Ideal World, the unforgettable Sur la Madison Road, the disturbing Mystic River…

However, according to AlloCiné audience scores, of all the gems Clint Eastwood has directed over the decades, it is definitely Gran Torino that is his best film.

With an excellent average of 4,487 out of 5 stars, this intense drama, built from powerful sequences in the service of a gloriously simple plot, is driven mainly by two characters whose souls we get to know throughout the film.

This beautiful story of friendship, which no one can believe at the beginning of the feature film, but after a little over two hours, irresistibly captivated every viewer, ends with a masterful performance that must carefully be classified among the greatest. Great scenes of Clint Eastwood in the cinema.

(Re)discover all the little hidden details of the Gran Torino…