Restorations & Revivals: MR. KLEIN
December 1 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
$7 – $9
Event Admission
Admission $9 General admission $10 Admission for film festivals presented at the MFAH $2 discount MFAH members, students with ID, seniors (65+) Free Children 5 and younger Purchasing Tickets The MFAH Films box office accepts payment by credit card only. Tickets may be purchased in advance in three ways: online, via ticket links on mfah.org/calendar or mfah.org/film pages; in the MFAH lobbies during Museum hours; and at the box office prior to screenings. The box office opens an hour before showtime. In order to allow as many people as possible to be seated on time, staff may need to refrain from printing multiple advance tickets within the hour of a posted film screening. Join Film Buffs, the Museum’s patron group, and receive at least 10 free admissions to MFAH films, plus discounted admission thereafter. Location & Directions The MFAH has two theaters: Brown Auditorium Theater in the Law Building (1001 Bissonnet Street) and the Lynn Wyatt Theater in the Kinder Building (5500 Main Street). Learn more about parking and transportation options at the Museum. Subtitles All films originating in foreign languages are shown with English subtitles, unless otherwise noted. Ratings Many of the films are not rated and may be inappropriate for younger viewers. Closed-Captioning & Audio-Description Capabilities Brown Auditorium Theater is equipped for closed-captioning and audio-description services when the film presented has such features enabled. Please note that the MFAH screens rare and rediscovered prints of movie classics; new and historical works; restored silent films; thematic retrospectives; and innovative works by contemporary film, video, and new-media artists. Many of these titles are not distributed with closed-captioning and audio-description capabilities. Accessibility If you have any questions or requests concerning accessibility resources in the Museum’s auditoriums, email accessibility@mfah.org or call 713.639.7300.
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Directed by Joseph Losey
(France/Italy, 1976, 123 minutes, in French with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digital
Mr. Klein stars Alain Delon (1935–2024) in a role he considered his favorite.
Robert Klein is an amoral art dealer leveraging his position and status in 1942 Vichy France. Guided purely by self-interest, he exploits the desperate situation of French Jews to separate them from their valuable works of art passed on from generation to generation. After learning of another Robert Klein in the area, who he believes is trying to sabotage him, Klein’s sense of entitlement leads him to alert police. In so doing, the obsession steers him to become a suspect himself, and attempts to find the other (Jewish) Klein seal his fate
