Mr. Klein

Patio Party: 6:00 | Speakers: 6:30 | Films: 7:00

Tickets: $10 General Admission, $9 BHC, JFNH and Colonial Members
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One of the crowning achievements of blacklisted Hollywood director Joseph Losey’s European exile, Mr. Klein is a spellbinding modernist mystery that puts a chilling twist on the wrong-man thriller. Alain Delon delivers a standout performance as Robert Klein, a decadent art dealer in Paris during World War II who makes a tidy profit buying up paintings from his desperate Jewish clients. As Klein searches for a Jewish man with the same name for whom he has been mistaken, he finds himself plunged into a Kafkaesque nightmare in which his identity seems to dissolve and the forces of history to close in on him. Met with considerable controversy on its release for its portrayal of the real-life wrongdoings of the Vichy government, this haunting, disturbingly beautiful film shivers with existential dread as it traces a society’s descent into fascistic fear and inhumanity.

Guest Speaker: Kate Gibeault – Director, Cohen Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Keene State College

Director of the Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Keene State College, is a trained anthropologist of religion with expertise in religion in the wake of mass tragedies. Gibeault comes to Keene State from the University of San Diego, where she has worked for the past six years, offering courses on the Holocaust and related topics through the Department of Theology & Religious Studies. She has served as co-chair of the Teaching Religion Unit of the American Academy of Religion and as a co-director of the university’s Urgent Challenges Collective, an initiative that supports research, teaching, and advocacy on the issue of homelessness.

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