Clint Eastwood is forgiven everything, it is inevitable. And so too CRY MACHO – RETORNO A HOME, directed and interpreted by him, you look at him with the right respect. Film adaptation of the 1975 novel of the same name written by N. Richard Nash, author of the screenplay together with Nick Schenk, the film tells a beautiful and positive story that leans towards the fairy tale because it is interpreted by a 91 year old man, too many to make a ‘work which also does not lack action and passion.
This, however, is the story told in the film that passes tonight at the Turin Film Festival and then arrives in cinemas from 2 December with Warner. Miko (Eastwood), a former rodeo champion and horse trainer, is a sad man who believes in friendship and above all in gratitude. So when the former boss, who saved him in more than a difficult time, asks him to bring his young son home to Texas, Rafa (Eduardo Minett), to protect him from a Mexican mother, Leta (Fernanda Urrejola) close to crime, accept.
From here a journey, beyond the Mexican border, full of pitfalls. Reaching the boy’s mother, she immediately denies knowing exactly where Rafa is and in any case discourages him from looking for him. Not only that, the woman also tries an unlikely sexual encounter with the elderly cowboy who, however, wisely declines to his disappointment.
Miko / Eastwood however, despite not being young anymore, is not one to give up and in the end he finds Rafa, a boy he will discover not at all bad and who lives with Macho, a very smart fighting cock. Meanwhile, the strange trio made up of Miko, Rafa and Macho find themselves facing the henchmen of Leta who does not want the boy to go back to his father.
A temporary buen retiro will therefore be mandatory for them in an isolated Mexican town where Miko, despite his age, even manages to tame a wild horse, give a loud punch to an unfortunate person, sow the police and even make someone fall in love. other woman: Marta (Natalia Traven).
Despite all this, he gives Eastwood a speech to the boy who almost seems like a confession to himself: “Machismo is overrated when you are young – he says at one point to Rafa -. You only understand it too late when you are old and all those things that you could do before they become impossible “.
As for the criticisms of the film, the American and British experts did not go too lightly, but always with the respect due to the legend Clint. Almost all of them highlighted Eastwood’s age – not even too hidden by the actor-director himself – really very advanced to be credible even if only for the relationships established respectively with two women of 50 and 40 years. But Eastwood is Eastwood and he’s ageless. (HANDLE).
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