Clint Eastwood in the 1990s Cannes Film Festival. Jeanne Moreau commented, "Its remarkable that a man so important in European cinema has found the time to come here and spend twelve days watching movies with us". The jury included two people Eastwood knew well: Catherine Deneuve, with whom he had an affair back in the mid-1960s, and Lalo Schifrin, who had composed most of the jazz tracks to his "Dirty Harry" films. Clint Eastwood in the 1990s Clint Eastwood directed the film "White Hunter Black Heart", an adaptation of Peter Viertel's "roman à clef" about John Huston and the making of the classic film "The
White Hunter Black Heart Eastwood's own iconography. Jim Hoberman of "The Village Voice" hailed it as "Eastwood’s best work before "Unforgiven"...[an] underrated hall-of-mirrors movie about movie-inspired megalomania." Dave Kehr and Jonathan Rosenbaum consider it a masterpiece, with the latter pointing out the Brechtian nature of Eastwood's performance, as he never disappears into the role he is playing; instead, Eastwood is always recognizably his unique star persona while showing us what he imagines Huston (i.e. Wilson) to have been. The result is "a running commentary on his two subjects, Huston and himself—the ruminations and questions of a free man." "White Hunter Black Heart"'s gross theatrical