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Roman Polanski directs and stars as Trelkovsky, an expatriate pole in Paris who takes over the lease of a gloomy apartment and comes to believe that the other tenants in the block are conspiring to drive him to kill himself. The real or imagined conspiracy is supported by the suicide of the previous tenant. Trelkovsky finds himself assuming the identity of his predecessor, but the twist that sets this film above the competition is that this previous occupant was a girl. Polanski uses this twist to explore the character’s latent bisexuality in an atmosphere of paranoia and delusion. Also starring Shelley Winters as the concierge, Isabelle Adjani as Stella and Melvyn Douglas as Mr Zy, The Tenant features a cocktail of bizarre coincidences, inexplicable appearances and suggestions of the supernatural all brought together by master craftsman Polanski in this absorbing psychological thriller.
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Dolby digital 5.1
1.78:1 anamophic widescreen
1.78:1 anamophic widescreen
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
creepy,
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This review is from: The Tenant [1976] [DVD] (DVD)
I couldn`t sleep a wink after watching this super creepy movie. Roman Polanski is our hero(?) who moves into a creepy apartment block filled with sinister residents where the previous tenant had thrown herself from the window! Soon after moving in strange things start occurring, such as a tooth in the wall(!) and odd noises in the night... are the residents trying to send him mad? Are there more sinster forces at work? Or is Polanski just a very sick man? By the end of the movie not all the questions are answered and the movie is very slow, but watch it late at night for a creepiness not found in many films. I really liked the subtle use of repetion in the movie too and found the atmosphere in the movie more and more suffocating as the story progressed. definately an undiscovered masterpiece of its kind.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not a patch on Rosemary's Baby or Repulsion (spoilers),
By Amanda Huggenkiss (Italy) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Tenant [1976] [DVD] (DVD)
'The Tenant' is the third installment in the loosely-linked 'Apartment Trilogy', and it is far and away the weakest of the three. In comparision to the other two, it lacks really effective tension and suspense, and the descent into madness/paranoia isn't depicted in a very interesting way. I found Polanski unconvincing as a male lead; he seems very self-conscious, and at a number of points looks as if he's about to break into a smile. I found the scenes where he is in drag distracting and comical, and the supposedly dramatic suicide attempt sequence tediously drawn-out. The 'twist' at the end isn't so much thought-provoking but nonsensical. There was potential for a subtle horror film here, but unfortunately the director's narcissism took over and ruined it. The best performance is from Shelley Winters as the porter.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
No French language !! Pas de version française !!,
By contrebandier (Pau, France) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Tenant [1976] [DVD] (DVD)
The information about the French language available on this dvd edition is wrong, there's none !!...and I bought it because of the French version. What a disappointment. Si vous voulez acheter "Le Locataire"/"The Tenant", il n'y a aucune version française sur ce dvd. Bon,même si Polanski a du superviser la version anglaise, et que Shelley Winters et Melvyn Douglas s'expriment dans leur langue d'origine, c'est très décevant.
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