My mother took me to see this film when it first came out and, of all the European films we saw in the 70s, this is one that stayed with me. So when it was rereleased, I bought the Joseph Losey collection on DVD mainly to see Mr Klein again. Alain Delon was thought of as just a pretty boy until this film. Intriguing, unnerving, Mr Klein is a perfect existential tale of the banality of evil, centred on an event in June 1942 that the French would rather forget. One of the best films made about The Holocaust, in my opinion. It shows how easily such horrors can happen in a supposedly civilised society.
Review of Mr. Klein
