Directed by William KleinNot Rated
1977
101 minutes
**** 1/2
Of the three "Delirious Fictions of William Klein," The Model Couple is the film where he finally got everything right. Simultaneously satirizing both American consumerism (in a French-language film, no less) and the power of television to create celebrity (scarily prescient, no?), Klein created a near masterpiece that follows a couple who wins a contest to live as "science experiments" for six months as the most perfect definition of an average Parisian couple. With the barrage of reality shows we face today, the film may actually be more relevant now than it was then.
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