Mr. Klein (1976)
Mr. Klein (1976)
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Language: French | Subtitles: English (idx/sub)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery | France, Italy
DVDRip | AVI | 704 x 432 | XviD @ 1409 Kbps | MP3 @ 170 Kbps | 122 min | 1,40 Gb
Language: French | Subtitles: English (idx/sub)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery | France, Italy
Paris, 1942. Robert Klein cannot find any fault with the state of affairs in German-occupied France. He has a well-furnished flat, a mistress, and business is booming. Jews facing discrimination because of laws edicted by the French government are desperate to sell valuable works of art - and it is easy for him to get them at bargain prices. His cosy life is disrupted when he realizes that there is another Robert Klein in Paris - a Jew with a rather mysterious behaviour. Very soon, this homonymy attracts the close - and menacing - attention of the police on the established art trader.
This is a very interesting way to approach the Holocaust – a portrait of a life, fairly slow to get its rhythms, told ostensibly as a mystery, with truths about the Holocaust and how the daily routine of it felt for an observer. It's a brutal revenge story, but also an allegory for the self-loathing Jew who, in this case, runs toward his death, aware that it's coming and trying to avoid it but actually walking right into it, a nasty bit of determinism.
When the movie begins, Monsieur Klein (Alain Delon, whose performance is memorable, it's his last great part) is a bon vivant. A bourgeois vulture who buys paintings and other works of art for next to nothing from the Jews during the Occupation in France. One day, he receives a newspaper called "Les informations juives". Thus he discovers he's got a namesake. At first puzzled, Klein becomes more and more involved in a search of this man, his doppelganger, his twin, who plays cat and mouse with him. Both realist and dreamlike, not to say nightmarish à la Kafka, and metaphysical à la Borges, Klein's quest is both mad and logical, absurd and passionate. A sublime sequence shows Delon in a crowded café: a waiter 's calling "Monsieur Klein"; first he does not care because he knows "they " call the "other", but finally, he asks the waiter who tells him that the person who called "Monsieur Klein" looked just like him. Then the baffled Delon sees his reflection in a mirror.
A first-class work, "Monsieur Klein" leaves the audience numb and ill-at-ease. A topflight supporting cast (Suzanne Flon, Jean Bouise, Michel Lonsdale, Jeanne Moreau) shines.
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Mr. Klein (1976)
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