Clint Eastwood continues to astonish.
His latest film, Letters from Iwo Jima parallels his recent Flags of Our Fathers, but it takes audiences to a place that would seem unimaginable for an American director.
It's a feat of empathetic cross-cultural connection that Eastwood, more or less, willed into existence.
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