Klute

Alan J. Pakula

Intelligence. I suppose that's the word. With Fonda and Sutherland, you have actors who understand and sympathize with their characters, and you have a vehicle worthy of that sort of intelligence.

Roger Ebert

Archive - Festival 37
Director: Alan J. Pakula
USA 1971
114 minutes
English
Subtitles in Hebrew

John Klute (Donald Sutherland), a small-town detective searching for a missing man, has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute - Bree Daniels (Jane Fonda, in the role that won her an Academy Award for Best Actress).

Alan J. Pakula’s classic noir thriller is a character study suffused with paranoia that captures the mood of early-1970s New York and the predicament of a woman trying to find her own way on the fringes of society. With this film, Jane Fonda reinvented herself as a new kind of movie star, bringing to the role a frankness that had not yet been attempted in Hollywood.

Filmography: The Pelican Brief (1993), Presumed Innocent (1991), Sophie's Choice (1982), All the President's Men (1976), The Parallax View (1974).