Klute (1971)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 114m
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Cast: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider
Synopsis:
A private detective investigating the disappearance of a friend for the firm that employed him, travels to New York to question the recipient of obscene letters he apparently wrote, a call girl by the name of Bree Daniel. There his eyes are opened to a world of metropolitan licentiousness, and she is in turn irritated and unsettled by provincial stolidity.
Review:
The first of Pakula's paranoid trilogy (cf. The Parallax View and All the President's Men) is both an effective thriller along 'giallo' lines (Michael Small's score channelling Morricone's for The Bird with the Crystal Plumage) and a brilliantly acted character study. Sutherland steps very much into the background, giving an uninflected performance that allows Fonda's centre stage: through Pakula's unrelenting medium close-ups and follow shots of the actress moving through or trapped in her surroundings, or via her confessional sessions with her analyst, we are granted an unprecedented view of the psychology of a prostitute. The film was unusually permissive for its time, perhaps, but remains the essence of truly adult entertainment.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 114m
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Cast: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider
Synopsis:
A private detective investigating the disappearance of a friend for the firm that employed him, travels to New York to question the recipient of obscene letters he apparently wrote, a call girl by the name of Bree Daniel. There his eyes are opened to a world of metropolitan licentiousness, and she is in turn irritated and unsettled by provincial stolidity.
Review:
The first of Pakula's paranoid trilogy (cf. The Parallax View and All the President's Men) is both an effective thriller along 'giallo' lines (Michael Small's score channelling Morricone's for The Bird with the Crystal Plumage) and a brilliantly acted character study. Sutherland steps very much into the background, giving an uninflected performance that allows Fonda's centre stage: through Pakula's unrelenting medium close-ups and follow shots of the actress moving through or trapped in her surroundings, or via her confessional sessions with her analyst, we are granted an unprecedented view of the psychology of a prostitute. The film was unusually permissive for its time, perhaps, but remains the essence of truly adult entertainment.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 114m
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Cast: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider
Synopsis:
A private detective investigating the disappearance of a friend for the firm that employed him, travels to New York to question the recipient of obscene letters he apparently wrote, a call girl by the name of Bree Daniel. There his eyes are opened to a world of metropolitan licentiousness, and she is in turn irritated and unsettled by provincial stolidity.
Review:
The first of Pakula's paranoid trilogy (cf. The Parallax View and All the President's Men) is both an effective thriller along 'giallo' lines (Michael Small's score channelling Morricone's for The Bird with the Crystal Plumage) and a brilliantly acted character study. Sutherland steps very much into the background, giving an uninflected performance that allows Fonda's centre stage: through Pakula's unrelenting medium close-ups and follow shots of the actress moving through or trapped in her surroundings, or via her confessional sessions with her analyst, we are granted an unprecedented view of the psychology of a prostitute. The film was unusually permissive for its time, perhaps, but remains the essence of truly adult entertainment.