CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Claudio Carvalho In 1942, in Paris, Mr. Robert Klein (Alain Delon) is a bon-vivant art dealer that exploits French Jews that need to raise money selling their artworks. When he receives a Jewish newspaper, he discovers that there is a homonym in Paris and he goes to the police to report the mistake. Soon Mr. Klein becomes suspect by the police that he might be Jew and he decides to carry out his own investigation but he does not find the other Mr. Klein. He needs to prove his origins to the authorities but becomes obsessed to find his double."Monsieur Klein" is a movie with an intriguing story of obsession, but also with a disappointing conclusion. The reconstitution of Paris in the 40's is perfect; the performances are great; but the conclusion is quite non-sense with the personality and behavior of the lead character. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Mr. Klein"

writers_reign Losey's early Hollywood work included The Dividing Line and The Boy With Green Hair and Mr Klein contains elements of both inasmuch as he is still saying that if you're 'different' you'll wind up paying the price. He seems to have taken a leaf out of Jean-Pierre Melville's book and shot the film in muted, autumnal color which lends an ironic touch of austerity to the story of a man who deals in fine Art and lives a sumptuous lifestyle. Other posters have dealt both with the plot and its Kafkaesque overtones so it would be superfluous to repeat that here. Like the majority I found it an excellent effort and for a French film buff like me the pleasure was enhanced by a glimpse of Gerard Jugnot, a great cameo by Louis Seigner, a telling appearance by Michel Aumont, an all-too brief couple of appearances by the wonderful Suzanne Flon and Michael Lonsdale in fine form as Klein's lawyer. The Biter Bit element MAY be a tad obvious and overdone, true, but Delon's central performance plus the contributions already mentioned help take the edge of this whilst the startlingly effective opening of a naked woman submitting to an examination in order to prove her non-Jewishness is somewhat wasted by not being effectively linked to the main story but these are minor quibbles from one who has always found Losey somewhat overrated but who thoroughly enjoyed this late offering.

floydianer The French don't like talking about what happened in France in the Second World War when they are blamed of collaborating with the Nazis. This particular movie does not try to make history seem nicer than it was. Hats off to the producers, one of them Alain Delon himself, for bringing this serious topic to the screen.Apart from the historical background this is also a very suspenseful, well-written thriller with barely any lost minutes or boring scenes. There's no need to go through the content exactly again now, but it sure is an unusual and interesting one. The fight for your own identity. Mr Klein, an antiques seller who profits from sales of Jews who are in danger and want of money, finds out there's someone in Paris who's also called Robert Klein. As this Mr Klein is, as he suspects, a Jew he tries everything to find the one who steals his "safe identity".The director, Joseph Losey, presents us a very atmospheric picture of Paris 1942. The actors are all good, but the star is of course Alain Delon. Delon gives what is probably among his greatest character roles ever and he completely disappears into the demanding role. The screenplay is consistently fine and never has any missteps, including a dramatic and very touching final. A French film gem from the Seventies, watch it now!

alice liddell By far the most popular kind of film produced in 70s France was the policier, in which dogged detectives and po-faced policemen plodded through dour crime narratives after charismatic criminals. Generally reactionary, many featured Alain Delon, along with Jean-Paul Belmondo, France's biggest star.MONSIEUR KLEIN is a very different Delon policier. Set in Occupied Paris, its police are Gestapo stooges doggedly and po-facedly seeking out phoney Frenchmen, with one of whom Klein, Catholic, collaborationist-befriending, art-dealing war-profiteer, seems to be confused, with inevitable consequences.Losey's nausea-inducing camerawork, his use of ugly colour and shadows which literally swallows up the brightest of film-stars, the recreation of Nazi France, the playing with ideas of play, the combining of exciting thriller with Borges and Kafka, makes this one of the best films of the 70s.