Mr. Klein

Joseph Losey's first film in French is a meticulously constructed psychological thriller about a bourgeois antique dealer who lives in a plush Parisian apartment during the Nazi Occupation in 1942. Robert Klein (Alain Delon) makes his living by purchasing antiques from Jews who need quick money, desperate people who have no time to negotiate. His disregard for their plight comes back to haunt him, however, when he finds a Jewish newspaper delivered to his house addressed to a "Mr. Robert Klein." Certain there must be some mistake--he is, after all, an Alsatian French Catholic whose bloodline extends as far back as Louis XIV--Klein reports the other Mr. Klein to the...