“Don’t look back. Something might catch up with you.” These words could be those of a coward or a dilettante, yet they emanate from one of the greatest filmmakers the 20th century has seen, and undoubtedly hold the key to his success. With four Oscars, five Golden Globes, three Césars and the Palme d’Or at Cannes 2009, Clint Eastwood is a legend of the 7^e art.

Eastwood’s life may seem to have been crowned with insolent success, but it was not an easy one. An extra, a B-movie actor, he owed his success only to the spaghetti western filmed in Spain, which revealed to the world a face, a look, a restrained violence and a phlegm second to none. Cigar in his teeth, gun in his belt, mounted on a horse or camped out in the boxing ring, Clint the actor embodies determination made man. Camera in hand, filming America’s wide-open spaces or cityscapes, Clint the director turns his razor-sharp eye on the world as it is. A world that needs to be made a little fairer.

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On the occasion of the release of his 41^e film, Juror n°2, Le Figaro Hors-Série pays tribute to the tireless actor, producer and director who, at the dawn of his ninety-fifth birthday, is still churning out films faster than his shadow. From his beginnings as an extra and musician to his consecration as an actor-director, discover the itinerary of a disconcerting man, considered an anarchist populist or a conservative patriot, an unrepentant macho with a sensitive gaze, a director adept at sobriety and an heir to the classics… The Eastwood phenomenon in all its paradoxes.

Le Figaro Hors-Série “Clint Eastwood, the last of the giants”. 164 pages, 14,90€ .