Hair thick, oily, shiny.” Then a phrase that sends chills down the spine: “facial expression more or less Jewish”. A voice dispassionately recounts the findings: “Scalp low. Hands roughly pull her head from side to side to inspect her teeth, her gums, her ears. She’s trying to remain emotionally neutral, but there’s a hint of panic in her eyes. It is not the sort of face that usually starts a film: the camera’s gaze upon her is stark and flat, her skin betrays signs of middle age, her black hair is streaked with grey, her expression is strained. The first thing we see in Mr Klein, Joseph Losey’s French-language drama from 1976, is a woman’s face. “ Mr Klein shares more than a hint of Dostoevsky’s The Double, and prefigures Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy in its exploration of someone’s sense of self crumbling when faced with what could be an alter-ego.” ❉ Alain Delon stars in a genuinely frightening film that holds your nerves in its icy grip without ever becoming overtly violent or horrific.
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