Clint’s best since Unforgiven without a doubt, and a very worthy Best Picture nominee, easily the strongest in a very weak field. The grainy, digitised, almost B&W cinematography renders the film a little dark and muddy, but that was doubtless the intention- this is a bleak and relentless film, a rare cinematic study of defeat.
by Tom Huddleston | Source: DVD
20 May 2007 6:25 AM | Comments (1)
I think Letters is a better movie than Unforgiven. Mind you, I think the same thing about Mystic River and the terrific Million Dollar Baby. Eastwood’s career has been something else of late. Makes you wonder why most American directors have traditionally left their greatest work behind them by the time they hit their 60’s, yet here’s Eastwood in his late 70’s making some of the greatest movies around. That’s almost unprecedented – in fact it may well BE unprecedented – I certainly can’t think of another American director who made so many great movies this late in life. There are European equivalents for sure, but American?
Fred
20 May 2007
7:12 PM