To celebrate the film release of Invictus – it’s in theatres today! – Penguin Books is giving away a fantastic Clint Eastwood boxset.
Ten lucky winners stand a chance of winning the set, which comprises the Eastwood-directed classics Mystic River, Unforgiven and Gran Torino.
To enter, email your name and contact details to zukiswa.pikoli@za.penguingroup.com. That’s it!
Here’s a terrific feature on Eastwood’s latest from Zane Henry, writing in IOL Tonight, that includes a review, a summary of Eastwood’s role in getting the film off the ground, and a video interview with Morgan Freeman:
Two questions can be asked of Invictus. Should it have been made? And, could it have been made better? Well, yes and no, respectively.
The film tells a cracking good story with absorbing, if rather gentle, narrative developments. It is entertaining and, yes, inspiring.
The 1995 World Cup is an event most South Africans will remember with fondness. The film, and John Carlin’s book Playing The Enemy initially, throw some light on exactly why it is so memorable. It charts Nelson Mandela’s first few years out of prison and in the presidency and how he visualised using the World Cup to unite a divided land.
If it wasn’t for Clint Eastwood, the film might never have been made. Such is his Hollywood cachet that he could get a film about rugby and politics greenlit.
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