Two years after "La Mule", the director Clint Eastwood signs a new portrait of America and its excesses with "Le Cas Richard Jewell". Mathieu Charrier, our cinema specialist, gives us three good reasons to go see the film, in which Europe 1 is a partner (in theaters since February 19).

Clint Eastwood is back. The legendary American director, twice awarded with the Oscar for best director, has signed more than forty films in various genres: the western with Merciless and Pale Rider , the romantic drama with the magnificent Breezy and On the road from Madison , the historic film with Memories of our fathers ... In his latest film The Case Richard Jewell , Clint Eastwood returns to thriller, the thriller American genre par excellence. "A good thriller that keeps us going until the end," according to our Cinema journalist Mathieu Charrier.

"A film based on an incredible true story"

In 1996 Richard Jewell was part of the Atlanta Games security team. "He's the kind of police who dedicates his life to order. He lives with his mother. He doesn't have much in his life, except order and thoroughness," explains Mathieu. Charrier. Richard Jewell was one of the first to alert people to the presence of a bomb and save lives. Celebrated as a hero, he soon finds himself suspected of terrorism, becoming the most hated man in the United States.

"Clint Eastwood is never as good as when he tells real stories, when he is based on reality, when he is inspired by great figures from the United States", specifies our journalist. "And that's what he does with The Richard Jewell Case ".

"The power of the media exposed"

Richard Jewell was the subject of an FBI investigation for 88 days and was in the crosshairs of particularly fierce media. "The journalists of a local newspaper will not hesitate to put Richard Jewell on the front page accusing him of having laid a bomb. All public opinion, which celebrated him as a hero, will turn against this man and l 'accuse "explains Mathieu Charrier.

Richard Jewell was finally completely cleared after these 88 trying days and the arrest of the real culprit in 2003. "We can see the weight that a newspaper can have", concluded our journalist.

"Le Cas Richard Jewell" has been in theaters since Wednesday, in partnership with Europe 1.