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Mr. Klein

Monsieur Klein

1976

Joseph Losey

Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Francine Bergé, Juliet Berto ...

6.8

1,383

Drama. Mystery. Thriller Paris, 1942. Robert Klein is a successful art dealer, profiteering from the French government’s treatment of its Jewish citizens. To escape deportation to Germany, Jews are forced to sell their treasures to unscrupulous people like Klein. Then, one day, Klein receives a Jewish pamphlet addressed to him. He decides to look into this and discovers that there is another Mr Klein who has set out to confuse their identities to cover his own ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"It seems more relevant today [2019] than it did at its original 1976 release (...) Moody, elegantly disturbing and impeccably made by a master director"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"A cool, elegantly dressed movie (...) It satisfies only on a metaphorical level, and that isn't enough."	NEU
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"The simple passage of time (...) creates an unbearable dramatic suspense, and Losey catches it in motion, in ordinary actions that seethe with menace and doom."	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Losey's determinedly enigmatic treatment turns a potentially very interesting theme into cheap mystification."	NEU

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