Kirpianuscus a strange script. fascinating cast. a not comfortable story. a man out from its gray life, a confusion, a verdict and the search of the answer. and the last decision. it could be a page from Kafka. or only episode from Calvino/Borges work. it could be a war episode. in fact, it is a seductive parable about the truth and its dark shadow. Alain Delon does one of his greatest roles and that remains, after decades, one of the basic virtues of this question-film. because it is one of films who propose only a question. about every day life, about the other, about the security who seems be out of debates, about curiosity and about fear. and, sure, about accidents who becomes destiny. short, a film who must see. for the status of challenge. for the meeting of a different Joseph K. from the Trial.

JasparLamarCrabb Featuring some of the best acting Alain Delon ever did, MR. KLEIN is Joseph Losey's film of a callous art dealer in occupied France who sells the paintings of desperate Jews and becomes very rich in the process. One day he discovers a second Mr. Klein (a Jew) and things go downhill for him very quickly. A Kafkaesque nightmare if ever there was one ensues. Delon knows nothing of this other man but stumbles across a number of his cryptic colleagues, Jeanne Moreau & Suzanne Flon among them. Losey's direction is very succinct (he won the French Oscar for this) and there's a unending sense of dread right up until the dreadful ending. The unusually strong supporting cast includes Massimo Girotti, Francine Bergé and, as Delon's lawyer, Michel Lonsdale. It's an exceptional film with a great, twisty screenplay by Franco Solinas.

ma-cortes This is an interesting film involving a French-Catholic businessman into Kafkanian situations .January 1942, Paris , the art dealer Robert Klein is taking a lot of money because of the Nazi occupation gives him great opportunities on business buying objects and paying for less than which the valuables are worth from Jewish attempting to getaway . When a Jew newspaper appears near the door his cosy existence goes wrong. Then another Mr Klein from Jew resistance who lives hidden and wanted for anti-Nazi activities is replacing his identity , then he is mistaken for another person.It's a complex intrigue in Frank Kafka and Hitchock style , cleverly directed by Joseph Losey. The movie is proceeded of intense manner but in slow-moving and for that reason results to be a little bit boring.This suspenseful movie is well starred by Alain Delon, the French actor most known around the world mainly for his romantic and noir films. He worked with legendary directors as Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Melville, Luchino Visconti, and Michelangelo Antonioni.This is the second pairing Alain Delon-Losey who formerly collaborated in ¨Assassination of Trosky (1972)¨. Magnificent support cast plenty of known French actors as Jeanne Moreau,Michael Lonsdale, Suzanne Flon , Massimo Girotti and uncredited Gerard Jugnot and Michael Aumont.Confuse but original screenplay by prestigious Italian screenwriter named Franco Solinas. It contains splendid cinematography by Gerry Fisher adding adequate setting by the master Alexandre Trauner. Director Losey was originally compelled to release movies under pseudonym Victor Hansbury because he had blacklisted by Hollywood (where he shot The boy with the green hair, Prowler, Sleeping tiger, among others) during the 50s red scare . Losey exiled England where directed good films (Servant, King and Country, Accident, Romantic Englishwoman) and other European countries as France where filmed Mr Klein.

thierryz Mr. Klein is a magnetic masterpiece,it has the characteristics of a Film Noir although it's not a detective movie.It deals in a subtile way but irritating with one of the main traumas in the human Era suffered in the 20th century - The Holocaust. The plot seems to be ordinary and straight forward but in the background we have many clues that what seems to be is not what there is. Joseph Losey made here a genious work of directing,creating a mysterious movie with even more mysterious double character of Mr. Klein - one in the shade and one very well performed by Alain Delon.