THE MULE (MULA)
(EN CASTELLANO DEBAJO) This is a film I haven't seen yet. Well, in fact it has not been released yet in Spain. Looks as if Clint Eastwood is back at the top of his form, which is not a small feat considering that he’s around ninety years old. After three propaganda movies praising American values, Eastwood has gone again into the losers’ world. Those so called “propaganda movies” were “American Sniper”(2014): an intelligent, well finished movie set in the Iraq War,” Sully” (2016), a very well finished movie though completely hollow, and “The 15:17 to Paris” (2018), which I flatly refused to see after reading its plot outline. Instead “The Mule” –which Eastwood stars in and directs- seems related to his losers’ films like “Honkytonk Man” (1982), “Bird” (1988) or “Million Dollar Baby” (2004), to quote some. What I have read about “The Mule” is in the attached review, in Spanish, published in the Argentinean daily “Clarín” (see below the link),though I recom...