• Warning: Spoilers
    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.