What is it about actresses playing hookers that makes the Academy Awards stand up, take notice and practically hand the damn thing out? Typically these women do very little trick turning and posses hearts of gold that transform then main character into a better man and he sweeps them happily out of their sordid lives. There are no real complications to speak of, and there’s no business dealing w... read more
Description:This exciting murder-mystery story serves as a fascinating study of the complex inner life of an attractive call girl. Jane Fonda plays Bree Daniel, an aspiring model and actress who seeks to define herself through analysis. Her psychiatrist (Vivian Nathan) is a quiet woman who probes Bree's sexual problems. In these analysis scenes, This exciting murder-mystery story serves as a fascinating study of the complex inner life of an attractive call girl. Jane Fonda plays Bree Daniel, an aspiring model and actress who seeks to define herself through analysis. Her psychiatrist (Vivian Nathan) is a quiet woman who probes Bree's sexual problems. In these analysis scenes, Jane Fonda expresses Bree's traumas with amazing authenticity.
Bree gets involved with Klute (Donald Sutherland), a small-town Pennsylvania policeman who is investigating the disappearance of a friend. The only evidence of his connection with Bree is the carbon of a letter he wrote to her. When Klute enters Bree's life, she cannot understand his warmth or small-town decency. Turning to him for help when a pathological killer destines her for murder, Bree gets her feelings of dependence and independence all mixed up. Before she can decide, the killer strikes and forces her to make several decisions about herself.
Jane Fonda is believable as the call girl and Sutherland plays Klute with a quiet intensity. The swift pace of New York City, its underworld of prostitution and drug addiction, and its discotheque scenes are all vividly lensed by cinematographer Gordon Willis.... (more)(less)
"6.4 TV
Pakulalta sellainen trilleri, että katsoessa tuli hikoiltua ihan kunnolla. Elokuva on kiintoisasti kiedottu Jane Fondan prostituutiota työkseen harjoittavaan hahmoon, jonka avulla Donald Sutherlandin esittämä Klute yrittää selvittää rikosta. Tyylikäs ja huoliteltu, äärimmäisen hienoja hetkiä tarjoava yksityisetsivämysteeri kyseisen elokuvan lajin kulta-ajalta."
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An outsider police detective comes to town investigating a case, meets a prostitute who can probably help him, & naturally, the two fall in love.
In other words, imagine the movie Pretty Woman, except totally & completely different.
Klute is a film whose story was probably enhanced beyond it's premise by the high calibur performances of it's two lead actors, the always intelligent & distinctive Donald Sutherland,
& the even more intelligent & always beautiful Jane Fonda.
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"5.4.2013
Donald Sutherland is a private detective who goes in the big city in search of his missing friend, with the only lead being a call-girl who the friend apparently send dirty letters to. There is also the Gordon Willis's dark cinematography, sense of paranoia and threatening score (which reminded me a lot of the ones in The French Connection) to aid him along throughout the movie. All that is still just a cover up and something to spice the film, which is more than anything a character-s"
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