Breezy Reviews

Since it was the last movie directed by Clint Eastwood that I hadn't seen yet, of course, I was really eager to check it out. It is easily his most obscure directing effort and it was not easy to find (eventually, I found a DVD in Amazon coming all the way from Italy). To be honest, it wasn't really good. I mean, it was something really different than his usual work and it was the very first movie he made in which he wasn't starring. It was also the only movie he made with a female main character and pretty much like other masters such as Stanley Kubrick who never made a flick with a woman in the lead (even 'Lolita' doesn't count) and Martin Scorsese who only made one ('Boxcar Bertha' also very obscure), he had some trouble to make her more than just a sexual object. Eventually, I really hard a hard time to care about this Breezy girl who was really invasive, childish and rather annoying. Not surprisingly, William Holden's character worked better. Anyway, at the end of the day, the whole thing was pretty much some old man sleazy fantasy of having a sexual relationship with a very young woman. I mean, it is pretty notorious that Clint Eastwood is/was really a womanizer, having 7 children with 5 different women and his (ex)-wife was 35 younger than him. Still, even though it was really flawed, I can't completely discard the whole thing. Back in those days, it took some guts to make something so uncommercial, making a romance which was something new to him. The directing was also pretty shabby in the first 15 minutes but got better and William Holden was definitely not bad at all. To conclude, even though it is obviously a weaker effort, I still think it is worth a look, especially if you are interested in Clint Eastwood's work.