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DVD ~ Roman Polanski
3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet, Bernard Fresson
  • Directors: Roman Polanski
  • Writers: Roman Polanski, Gérard Brach, Roland Topor
  • Producers: Alain Sarde, Andrew Braunsberg, Hercules Bellville
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English, French
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 8 Mar 2004
  • Run Time: 120 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00012SZE0
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 21,348 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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

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5.0 out of 5 stars creepy, 21 Jun 2004
By J. A. R. King "two-pint-shorty" (ENGLAND) - See all my reviews
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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.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Madness, 3 Mar 2004
By Andy Millward (Broxbourne, Herts, UK) - See all my reviews
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Anyone already familiar with Repulsion will know that Polanski can conjure up fear and unease like few other directors. His output cannot be categorised as horror in the chiched sense that Rosemary's Baby achieved through Satan worshipping, but by portraying descent into paranoia and insanity they achieve so much more than your run-of-the-mill thriller.

Films that grab you by the throat and leave you feeling totally uncomfortable they definitely are, speaking volumes for the director's menacing psyche. At his best, few directors can achieve edge-of-the-seat suspense the way that Polanski can. Witness his skill at focusing on tiny details, until their significance grows disproportionately and distorts all around it with creepy effect. Polanski does claustrophobia like nobody else.

Although The Tenant failed to earn rave reviews in the way that Repulsion did, Polanski earns his acting spurs with a magnificent performance in the title role. The tenant moves into a mundane apartment block populated by residents with a paranoid obsession about the slightest noise, disturbance or behaviour deemed inappropriate. Forced by his neighbours to live in increasing isolation, and to spy for fear of being caught, bizarre fantasies form in the tenant's mind. His increasing madness has horrifying consequences for all concerned. The climax is both shocking and totally believable - this is man-made horror.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Strange Apartment, 28 Oct 2006
By Green Man Music "green-man-music" (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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The Tenant is a story set in a Paris where accommodation is at a premium and people are paying extortionate rents to secure somewhere to live. It is the tale of a man who is waiting for a woman to die in hospital so that he can rent her room. She recently attempted suicide; despite the circumstances, the protagonist is still given a gruelling interview by his prospective landlord. Eventually the girl dies and he moves in, but finds himself more and more drawn into the case of the girl who occupied the room before him. On top of this, he finds the other tenants in the building obsessed with noise levels. Each tenant he meets seems as eccentric as the last. They set up petitions against each other to send to the police, and one or other of them is frequently seen standing alone and motionless in the bathroom during the middle of the night.

The Tenant, ultimately, is the story of one man's descent into madness and paranoia fuelled by the bizarre events around him and the interaction of the past and the future. And though with a twist in the tail that's not entirely unpredictable, it's still a very engaging film you'll want to watch in one sitting . Good stuff.
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