The Tenant
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Actor: Isabelle Adjani, Jean-Pierre Bagot, Josiane Balasko, Michel Blanc, Patrice AlexsandrePrimary Contributor: Isabelle Adjani
Primary Contributor: Melvyn Douglas
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Running Time: 126 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-07-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of The Tenant
Movie Review: The Apartment Building From Hell (Great Psychological/Supernatural Thriller From Roman Polanski)
Summary: 5 Stars
Strange. Bizarre. Creepy. These are words that can be used to describe Roman Polanski's "The Tenant." They can also be used to describe the residents of the Parisian apartment building into which Trelkovsky (Roman Polanski) moves. The former resident, Simone, leaped from the window and laid, wrapped like a mummy, in the hospital before dying. Soon, Trelkovsky believes that there is a conspiracy among the neighbors to force him to also commit suicide Does this diabolical conspiracy exist only in his insane imagination or is it real? The viewer never knows for sure and this makes the film highly provocative.
Having watched Polanski's occult masterpiece, "Rosemary's Baby," I can't help but believe that Trelkovsky is part of a complex Satanic conspiracy. The neighbors are Satan worshippers who have conspired to drive him insane and force him to commit suicide as a type of human sacrifice. They treat him as though he is Simone, giving him her mail and serving him her hot chocolate and Marlboros. He receives her photograph of the Egyptian sarcophagus from the Louvre. Next, he sees Egyptian hieroglyphics on the wall of the communal bathroom - the wall upon which residents have been seen staring as though entranced. There is also the human tooth embedded in his apartment wall. Simone's tooth? It would imply that part of her lives on in the apartment, preserved like a mummy, for eternity. Perhaps it is her soul, or ghost, that compels him to wear her clothes and put on a wig.
Commentary from Roman Polanski, explaining the mystery behind the apartment building and its residents, would've been nice. As usual, Paramount has provided us with an awesome reproduction of the film but has not taken the time to add special features except for a short trailer. There are, however, English subtitles for us hearing impaired.
"The Tenant" is highly recommended for fans of psychological horror, fans of occult thrillers, and fans of Roman Polanski's works. I have not seen his "Repulsion" but I hear that it also deals with the deterioration of a warped psyche.
Summary of The Tenant
After the triumph of Chinatown, Roman Polanski's The Tenant marked an unsettling return to the horrifying psychodrama of Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby. As in those previous films, Polanski explores a descent into madness with subtle, deliberate pacing and keen attention to accumulating details. Cannily casting himself in the title role, Polanski plays the mild-mannered occupant of a Parisian flat previously rented by a woman who committed suicide by leaping from her upper-floor balcony. The woman's leftover belongings and the harsh attitudes of disapproving neighbors (including Melvin Douglas and Shelley Winters) begin to grate on the new tenant's psyche; his paranoia shifts from simmering anxiety to full-blown psychosis, until fate itself seems to run in a complete, tragically tormenting circle. Polanski masters the material as only he could, and despite some critical drubbing at the time of its release, The Tenant has earned a place among Polanski's finest films. --Jeff ShannonHorror DVD Video
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