There are two Robert Kleins (one’s a Jew) in WWII Nazi-occupied France in this slow-burning, finely-tuned Kafkaesque wrong identity mystery-thriller, starring a paranoid Alain Delon.
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Mr. Klein (1976)
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Tag / 1976
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Face to Face (1976)
Bergman fashions a character study as a penetrating psychoanalytic exercise featuring what could be Liv Ullmann’s most intensely vulnerable performance as a psychiatrist suffering from a severe mental breakdown.
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Return of the Prodigal Son, The (1976)
A meandering misfire from Chahine, this family conflict drama infused with superfluous sequences of song-and-dance fails to stir the senses in the way that his best works effortlessly do.
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In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
One of the most notorious films in the history of cinema—its explicit, unsimulated depiction of sex hides a troubling exploration of social alienation.
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Marquise of O, The (1976)
An anomaly in Rohmer’s filmography, this beautiful if minimalist period costume drama about a woman who doesn’t know how she got pregnant feels like a stage exercise rather than an embracing, organic work.
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Nine Months (1976)
A strongly feministic work, albeit a rather cold one, about a young Hungarian woman who must navigate an industrial job, toxic masculinity and social norms of marriage and child-rearing, directed with quiet authenticity by Marta Meszaros.
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Chess Game of the Wind, The (1976)
This banned and long-lost Iranian debut feature, boosted by a stunning restoration, is a genuine eye-opener—subversive, progressive, and a formidable take on how power and greed are symptomatic of patriarchy and nobility.
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Taxi Driver (1976)
This is Scorsese at his finest, and is in my opinion probably the greatest American film to come out of the 1970s.
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Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976)
Continue reading →Religion and politics collide in frightening ways in this based-on-a-true-story ‘docu-drama’ that ranks as one of Mexican cinema’s greatest films.
Chinese Roulette (1976)
Continue reading →Despite expert staging of mise-en-scene and astute camerawork, Fassbinder’s psychological chamber piece on infidelity and deep-seated hate probably only works as an intellectual exercise.
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