tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post2427115923874446947..comments2024-03-15T04:08:16.172-04:00Comments on Only the Cinema: Films I Love #54: Mr. Klein (Joseph Losey, 1976)Ed Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18014222247676090467noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-31676758420914382722011-08-19T03:37:55.853-04:002011-08-19T03:37:55.853-04:00Thanks for the lovely reading of MK. I took some M...Thanks for the lovely reading of MK. I took some M. Klein images for a post on the Blowup Moment: http://theblowupmoment.blogspot.com/2011/07/m-klein-joseph-losey-1976-kodak.html<br /><br />and there's one here in a context of Nazis and maps, on the Cine-Tourist:<br />http://www.thecinetourist.net/1/post/2011/07/115-yoyo-pierre-etaix-1964.html<br /><br />Roland-François Lackroroldamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09746429099116431654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-52676670507770440372011-08-14T17:11:56.747-04:002011-08-14T17:11:56.747-04:00Just my two centimes...
The way Robert Klein deal...Just my two centimes...<br /><br />The way Robert Klein deals with the painting in the second scene mirrors the way doctors at the hospital deal with people : art is an object of anatomy, a thing that can be precisely - and profitably - studied, measured, handled and accounted for. Something devoid of humanity. The shot of the couple after the wife has been examined is echoed by the shot where nem bajnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-34082615588771930022011-08-08T18:09:46.673-04:002011-08-08T18:09:46.673-04:00La Truite has one of my all-time favorite movie li...<i>La Truite</i> has one of my all-time favorite movie lines, delivered with appropriately devestating aplomb byt eh great Jeanne Moreau: "Heterosexual, homosexual -- people are either sexual or they're not!"DavidEhrensteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11016905507543736049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-25584841046478012922011-08-08T13:50:28.826-04:002011-08-08T13:50:28.826-04:00Thanks, Jamie. You're right about how Losey re...Thanks, Jamie. You're right about how Losey relies on our knowledge of the period to build this incredible sense of dread. And the not-so-subtle horror of scenes like the opening add to the claustrophobia and tension. It gives a real edge to Klein's aimless confusion. I love Losey's Pinter collaborations, too, of course, though I haven't seen <i>The Go-Between</i> (or <i>The Ed Howardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014222247676090467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-3740971729523646862011-08-08T12:15:54.175-04:002011-08-08T12:15:54.175-04:00And a very complicated and dangerous human being. ...And a very complicated and dangerous human being. Go forth and "Google."<br /><br />Losey's <i>The Criminal</i> (aka. <i>The Concrete Jungle</i>) is not bad. Script by Alun Owen (who went on to write <i>A Hard Day's Night</i>) and a great performance by Stanley Baker.DavidEhrensteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11016905507543736049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-72482536520967883222011-08-08T11:21:57.291-04:002011-08-08T11:21:57.291-04:00I love Delon. I remember when I was little, my mot...I love Delon. I remember when I was little, my mother looked at all his movies. Looking at all the films I began to admire him. It's a great actor.Alexanderhttp://www.offshore-professional.com/en/capitalmanagement-license/capitalmanagement-license.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-5716433871331926772011-08-08T11:08:13.304-04:002011-08-08T11:08:13.304-04:00Great evocative summary Ed, getting at the core of...Great evocative summary Ed, getting at the core of the film in a scant two paragraphs and a few screen captures. I especially like your horse metaphor in the films opening, a sequence I've always thought sees its natural outcome at the films close when the hordes of 'horses' are packed into a stable train car as if they are livestock of some sort. It's a film that relies on our Jamienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-86743015429362303342011-08-05T09:03:50.248-04:002011-08-05T09:03:50.248-04:00In this Klein resembles Poe's "William Wi...In this Klein resembles Poe's "William Wilson" -- who Delon played in Louis Malle's episode of <i>Histoires Extrordinaires</i> (aka)<i>Spirits of the Dead</i> )DavidEhrensteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11016905507543736049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-80120988686263957392011-08-05T07:19:52.740-04:002011-08-05T07:19:52.740-04:00Yeah, this is my favorite Losey too, definitely hi...Yeah, this is my favorite Losey too, definitely his masterpiece. I love your analysis of Delon/Klein as someone who hides from himself, wrapping himself in self-delusion. That theme is especially embodied here in the idea that there are two Kleins, even though as the film goes on it increasingly begins to seem like the second Klein exists only in the mind of the first, an embodiment of his Ed Howardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014222247676090467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-86725118648845607812011-08-03T17:52:36.229-04:002011-08-03T17:52:36.229-04:00This is Losey's best film, and Delon's as ...This is Losey's best film, and Delon's as well. You're quite right about the opening scene. It's incredibly shocking to see a human being treated this way. Yet we know this happened and we know what's coming. What's doubly upsetting is that the woman still holds out hope she'll be spared. She won't.<br /><br />As for Delon there's no actor alive who could do DavidEhrensteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11016905507543736049noreply@blogger.com