Find out which film has the best audience AND press rating according to the AlloCiné ratings. A clue: it is a drama and a thriller released in 2009 in France.
Who would have thought when it was released in 2009 that this feature film would one day become a perfect film? According to data from AlloCiné, Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino has the best “viewer rating / press rating” ratio of the entire AlloCiné database!
The classification was carried out according to the following rules: only films with more than 10 press titles and with at least 25 spectator reviews on their file were eligible for classification. With 4.71/5 for the critics and 4.487/5 for the public, Gran Torino is the big winner! But have you seen this Clint Eastwood masterpiece?
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A veteran of the Korean War, Walt Kowalski (Eastwood) lives alone with his M1 Garand rifle and his dog Daisy. Widowed, worn out by assembly-line work, he lives recluse in a solitude that suits him. He despises his Asian, Latino, and African-American neighbors and awaits a death that should be deliverance. But one day, Thao, a neighborhood teenager, tries to steal his favorite Ford Gran Torino for a local gang. Their meeting will give rise to feelings in Walt that he thought had disappeared forever.
Relevant “simply a miracle” for Charlie Hebdo, Gran Torino is “exciting, humanistic, funny but also heartbreaking” (Le Parisien), a “major work” (Positive) and imposes itself as “one of the great films of the actor as well as the director” (The world). In short, the press is conquered as a whole.
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But spectators are not left out, highlighting the “quality of his writing and the underlying depth of the narrative” (Akamaru), Eastwood’s performance which “embodies very accurately this retiree from the Ford factories” (Stephenballad) and the fact that “everything is perfect (…), from the beginning to the inevitable and beautiful end” (nicotrash60).
Absent from major American award ceremonies, Gran Torino won the César for Best Foreign Film in France. Eastwood had previously received this honor for Mystic River in 2004 and for Million Dollar Baby in 2006.
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At the time of its release, Clint Eastwood was 78 years old and the press then announced that it could be his last feature film as an actor. Fifteen years later, the filmmaker has shot 10 additional films, including 4 in which he appears! At 93, he would prepare a new project entitled Juror #2 whose synopsis is quite catchy, but for the moment, the director has not yet confirmed that he is indeed in charge of the project.
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