Owing to the very same personal urgency that makes it a masterpiece, it is overwhelmingly solipsistic and ultimately alienating.
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09/14/07
The Tenant (1976)
90 %
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Reviews Counted: 20
Fresh: 18
Rotten:2
Average Rating: 8/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 6 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: Trelkovsky (director Roman Polanski), a Polish immigrant residing in Paris, moves into an apartment vacated by a young woman who committed suicide by leaping out of her window. Upon moving in, Trelkovsky begins feeling that the woman's... [More]
Starring: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet
Director: Roman Polanski
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04/09/04
Roman Polanski’s key error is almost certainly casting himself in the lead, as he is not an adept enough thespian to pull of the challenging transformation of his character.
03/08/04
It's an exercise in urban paranoia and mental disintegration that echoes or anticipates everything from Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby to Bitter Moon and The Pianist.
02/03/04
Top Critic The Tenant is Polanski at his funniest, and its humor is premised on its excess. You can think of it as a staring contest where your opponent is dressed in wild drag.
09/05/03
The Tenant isn’t so much a psychological portrait of grief as it is an unnerving acknowledgement of the ambiguous nature of the world.
06/28/03
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