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For those who have seen all of Joseph Losey’s principal films, MR. KLEIN is the greatest after THE SERVANT. Some even call MR. KLEIN Losey’s finest achievement. It’s telling of our fragmented film culture that such an accomplished work of art remains unknown, even to many serious film buffs. For years, we had to choose for an English-dubbed, panned & scanned VHS tape. But the greatness of MR. KLEIN showed through even that medium.
Now the film is available on a high-quality DVD from Home Vision (which manufactures Criterion DVDs) . The transfer is very graceful, with the enormous color pallette ringing out. And the widescreen aspect of the film can be appreciated by many who have never seen it peruse so respectable.
MR. KLEIN is a work of which its director should have been proud. It’s quick-witted, inviting, animated, humorous, and fair. Like THE SERVANT, it has at its center an ambiguous hero by whom one is, at turns, repelled and attracted.
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This may also be the greatest acting achievement of Alain Delon. The charismatic French actor’s still-stunning proper looks sometimes can distract from appreciating his pleasurable talent. Delon probably never gave a unpleasant performance in any film. But MR. KLEIN provides him with a wide range and depth that he is more than gracious of handling. It’s mostly a calm performance, with few outbursts. Delon is required to react, which he does brilliantly at several points, or to content the meaning of scene through posture and facial expression alone. One subtle example is the scene early on, where the mistress is on the bed in the background, wondering if she should score up. Delon is seated at his desk, half-listening to her trivialities. He has far more pressing issues on his mind. The actor perfectly conveys the ambivalent, trapped station through slight body gestures and tone of whisper. When he finally rises to address the mistress’s concerns, his forced tone is also exactly moral for the moment. Later, Delon plays Klein’s mixture of desperation and arrogance with so grand conviction, it’s easy to forget he is, after all, acting.
MR. KLEIN is a film of rich interiors, and eye-catching, but not ostentatious, residence shooting. It looks ample on DVD and it can leave the viewer devastated, but undeniably impressed by the genius of Joseph Losey and Alain Delon.
A trailer for MR. KLEIN is also included
While less eminent than his collaborations with Harold Pinter, “Mr. Klein” may well be director Joseph Losey’s best work. A chilling parable that tends to leave viewers speechless, it offers a brilliantly sustained vision of life in a decadent, futureless society. Perhaps most importantly, this is a film about the Holocaust that does *not* focus on its horrors. Instead, these are taken as a given that surround the central anecdote, smothering all concerned in a blanket of complicity.
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The most remarkably insidious aspect of “Mr. Klein” is the clever method we are place in a status of sympathy with a basically unlikeable, harmful character, as he struggles to show he is not Jewish. Because we know what the consequences of failure in the distress will be, viewers too are implicated in the spot, forced to confront how *we* would behave in similar circumstances. Instead of the easy moralizing encouraged in most treatments of this subject, the film presents a thoroughly political, unblinkered examination of guilt and denial.
Like most of Losey’s work, the film is slow-moving, distinctively designed and more than a tad opaque. In his less ambitious efforts, that opacity can often irritate. Here, with a valid subject edifying of his talents, the director’s famously menacing atmosphere seems absolutely proper, the only intention to exclaim this memoir. Losey’s penchant for implying something spoiled under the surface makes sense when we know that at any moment a jack-booted member of the SS may appear from off-camera. It is this threat, this constantly over-hanging possibility, that generates the alarm which is the dependable subject of the film.
All concerned are working in top perform. Delon manages the awkward task of making us care what happens to Klein, even as we are repulsed by his actions and attitudes. Gerry Fisher’s cinematography is the opposite of beautiful: frigid, clammy, it superbly conveys a sense of dank decay. And special mention should be made of Egisto Macchi’s spare, dissonant music. If only Hollywood understood such understatement!
The transfer for this tape is adequate, but I profoundly wish this agreeable film were available on DVD.
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