Film: Eternal Eastwood takes things slowly in elegiac Western
The 91-year-old’s latest film, Cry Macho, isn’t a patch on the gunslinging classics that made him a legend
Cry Macho
Directed by Clint Eastwood
Nationwide, 12A
Rating: ***
Natural Light
Directed by Dénes Nagy
Selected, 15A
Rating: ***
Now aged 91, Clint Eastwood both directs and stars in Cry Macho, an elegiac Western set in the late 1970s. This was the decade when he did some of his best acting for Don Siegel and John Sturges, establishing himself as a master of the revisionist Western with movies such as High Plains Drifter and ...