The Legend of Clint Eastwood

Hereafter, 2010
In three countries, three people — a San Francisco psychic (Matt Damon), a French newscaster (Cecile de France), an English boy with a dead twin brother (George and Frankie McLaren) — get emanations from the beyond. The first movie of Eastwood's ninth decade, Hereafter takes no position on the afterlife; but it believes that people who believe have the power to alter their destinies. The movie can also be seen as the final testament of many Clint characters, from his antihero in the Leone films to the Pale Rider preacher, from Million Dollar Baby's Frankie Dunn to Gran Torino's Walt Kowalski: men for whom facing down death was a natural part of life.

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