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Monday, 19 February 2007 |
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You could say France made his jour.
President Jacques Chirac on Saturday named Clint Eastwood a knight in the Legion of Honor, one of the country's highest accolades for a noncitizen and ranking the Oscar winner right up there with Jerry Lewis.
"France of course wants to pay homage to your immense talent as an actor, your genius as a director and to your place in the world of cinema," Chirac said during a ceremony at the chairmanial Elysee Palace. "You show the complexity of Amrica, in all its grandeur and fragility, with its enthusiastic dreams and its worried questioning."
Eastwood accepted the honor with the same humility and grace that has marked his 50-year-career in movies.
"I've just finished being a Japanese director on a film and my great ambition one day is to do a French film, become a French director," the filmmaker said, referring to "Letters From Iwo Jima," his latest film spoken entirely in Japanese. |
