MONSIEUR KLEIN (CERT. 12)
FRANCE-ITALY 1976 DIRECTED BY JOSEPH LOSEY
COLOUR 123 MINS
WITH: ALAIN DELON, JEANNE MOREAU, MICHEL LONSDALE
In war-time Paris, an opportunist art-dealer from Alsace takes advantage of the German
occupation, but is alarmed to find that he has a Jewish namesake in the city. A cool mysterystory
set at a time of cataclysmic events.
3 Césars (Best Film, Best Director, Best Production Design)
‘In tax-exile from the UK, Losey made three films in the French language, the first of which, Mr
Klein, is universally regarded as among the finest of his career.’ – David Caute
‘A film of astonishing virtuosity and control, superbly acted and saying much more about racism in
its oblique way than a hundred liberal tracts.’ – Tom Milne
‘You don’t want to see it twice, you have to see it twice, for, like all great works of art, it doesn’t
yield all its secrets at one sitting.’ – Michael Billington
‘The best ever film about the Occupation.’ – Michel Ciment
‘Losey is above all a researcher, his direction a method of research. The avowed aim is knowledge,
as with a scholar. Losey restores to the camera its original function as a scientific instrument.’ –
Cahiers du Cinéma
