**Joseph Losey (1909-1984)** was an influential American film director whose career was profoundly marked and reoriented by McCarthyism, which forced him into exile in the United Kingdom from 1953.

Initially active in American theater and cinema with film noir features, it was in Europe that Losey made his most significant films. Known for his collaboration with screenwriter Harold Pinter, he created works of psychological and social analysis such as *The Servant* (1963), *Accident* (1967), and *The Go-Between* (1971), which earned him the Palme d'Or at Cannes.

Other important films include *Eva* (1962), *Modesty Blaise* (1966), and the opera adaptation *Don Giovanni* (1979). His style is characterized by formal elegance, a tense atmosphere, and the exploration of themes such as bourgeois corruption, power dynamics, alienation, and complex human relationships, often with a visually sophisticated aesthetic.