Klute (1971)
A classy thriller from director Alan J. Pakula in which Jane Fonda plays Bree Daniel, a high class call girl and wannabe actress who is seemingly stalked by a client who is also a suspected missing person. Aided by private detective Donald Sutherland as John Klute, who is investigating the missing person.
Pakula's direction provides the film with a stifling gritty atmosphere, the film is dark in every way. It inhabits the same seedy night time world as 1969's Midnight Cowboy and 1984's Tightrope and is fraught with a paranoia that Pakula would really hit home with during The Parallax View (1974) and All the President's Men (1976).
However this is as much a character study as suspense thriller as Klute's relationship with Bree plays out with more intrigue and indeed suspense than the actual case, teaching her the difference between cold sex and warm love between two people as she battles her emotions with a nervous, jumpy intensity. Klute is definitely a film to watch for the performances and a fine example of seventies adult cinema.
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