Clint Eastwood always had one of the great faces of cinema, so it makes sense that somewhere along the way he became one of our great directors of faces. It feels ridiculous to talk of Eastwood’s “late style,” since the man has been on a late-style tear for the past 30-plus years. Unforgiven was the elegiac work of an aging icon looking back on a long and varied career; that was 1992. In recent years, though, as his films have become even more stripped down and settled into contemplative austerity, he’s seemed more content simply to let us look at the people he puts up onscreen.
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