RIP Robert Redford

There’ll be those who remember him for offbeat movies like ‘The Candidate’ or ‘Downhill Racer.’ There will be those who’ll remember him as a great romantic leading man in movies like ‘The Way We Were.’ There will be those who will consider him a great force in the emergence of independent filmmaking. There will be those that will remember ‘Ordinary People’ as an impressive directorial debut. The one thing he has always been is difficult to anticipate. I think he enjoys, in a perverse way, not doing what you expect him to do.

That was the late Sydney Pollack speculating about Redford’s legacy with Variety magazine in 2002.

And here’s a cinematic moment that was unexpected—from Havana (1990), a little-remembered movie, and the last of Redford’s seven collaborations with Pollack as the director.  To quote a commenter on Rotten Tomatoes, “Robert Redford looks a bit weathered in this one, but less weathered when he takes on 2 American foxes half his age in a menage a trois”.