The Tenant
1976
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Trelkovsky
Stella
Monsieur Zy
The Concierge
Madame Dioz
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Critic Reviews for The Tenant
All Critics (32) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (28) | Rotten (4)
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A disturbing and poignant anthology of Roman Polanski's favourite, oppressive themes.
February 18, 2010 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… -
It has a humorous tang, underlying the macabre.
October 18, 2008 | Full Review… -
As the plot escalates into increasingly arbitrary excesses of fantasy and heads for the predictable pay-off, the movie looks more and more like a potboiler.
June 24, 2006 | Full Review… -
The film is superbly acted by Mr. Polanski, Mr. Douglas and Miss Winters.
May 9, 2005 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… -
As a film by Polanski, it's unspeakably disappointing.
October 23, 2004 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review… -
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.
February 3, 2004
Audience Reviews for The Tenant
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Mar 25, 2014Polanski's The Tenant is his final film in the Apartment Trilogy, I still have to watch Repulsion, but Rosemary's Baby is in my top ten. The Tenantalso covers paranoia, where Polanski himself plays the paranoiac. After he moves into an apartment where the last tenant killed herself, he gets surrounded by bizarre and often evil tenants. The movie effectively covers how perception changes reality for the paranoid mind, and how the unconscious blames the outside world for the actions of the own man. The ending is predictable, in fact I didn't even have to watch more than ten minutes to understand what will come. Before so there are a few tense instances, and the film can be slightly disturbing. Polanski is no Mia Farrow, and The Tenant is no Rosemary's Baby, but it remains a decent psychological thriller.ÂDaniel D Super Reviewer
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Jul 12, 2013Though it's slow--and doesn't come near the brilliance of the classic Rosemary's Baby or the cinematic masterpiece that was Polanski's Macbeth--it is a successfully spooky mystery/thriller with a solid performance from Polanski and a well-filmed, hair-raising climax.Matthew Samuel M Super Reviewer
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Apr 06, 2013The last of Roman Polanski's apartment trilogy offered more surprises than you would have expected. A psychological/supernatural thriller that explored the themes of cycle, paranoia, hostility and mental illness. It's a bit long in terms of running time but the tension was able to build up gradually. Definitely not Polanski's finest work but it's quite interesting to watch.Sylvester K Super Reviewer
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May 12, 2011Let's just say that the rating is somewhere between 3.5-4, and that the grade is around a strong B to a B+. Part of Polanski's "Apartment Trilogy", this is a surreal psychological horror/suspense thriller about a timid and quiet file clerk named Trelkovsky whose life starts to go downhill after moving into a new apartment. He is told that the previous tenant went mad and took a swan dive out a window. Trelkovsky himself starts to feel that his neighbors all have something against him and are trying to get him to follow the same path taken by the previous tenant. Is this really the truth though, or is it all just in his head? The set up is great, and I love how Polanski plays with ambiguity here, all the way through. It's also funny how he plays the lead role, but isn't even listed in the credits, something that is both odd and cool. This is a psychological horror/suspense thriller, but it is also rather funny at times, albeit the comedy is of the really dark variety. Like I said, I love the set up, but the film isn't perfect. The biggest issue is that it is just way too drawn out. I really don't think it needed to be 125 minutes long. It could have been way condensed. However, haviing a long running time does allow for a tremendous amount of mood, tone, and atmosphere to be really expanded upon, even if it does start to become a tad much. The cast is international, and they are all great. Polanski does a great job in the lead, and it is a shame he really doesn't act too much. He's pretty talented in this department. Isabelle Adjani is great with her frilly hair and oh so 70s glasses, but probably my favorite is Shelley Winters as the concierge. She's a hoot. All in all, a mostly pretty satisfying film. The soundtrack is nice, the cinematography top notch, and the storyline wonderfully Kafkaesque. Give this one a shot.Chris W Super Reviewer
The Tenant Quotes
| Trelkovsky: | I think I'm pregnant |
| Madame Dioz: | She does her washing-up in the middle of the night, and she whistles at the same time! |
| Trelkovsky: | At what precise moment does an individual stop being who he thinks he is? Cut off my arm. I say, "Me and my arm." You cut off my other arm. I say, "Me and my two arms." You take out my stomach, my kidneys, assuming that were possible... And I say, "Me and my intestines." And now, if you cut off my head... would I say, "Me and my head" or "Me and my body"? What right has my head to call itself me? What right? |
| Trelkovsky: | At what precise moment does an individual stop being who he thinks he is? Cut off my arm. I say, 'Me and my arm.' You cut off my other arm. I say, 'Me and my two arms.' You take out my stomach, my kidneys, assuming that were possible... And I say, 'Me and my intestines.' And now, if you cut off my head... would I say, 'Me and my head' or 'Me and my body'? What right has my head to call itself me? What right? |
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