The Tenant
by Roman Polanski
Our Price: $27.95
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $6.44 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD Cover Information
Actor: Bernard Fresson, Isabelle Adjani, Jo Van Fleet, Melvyn Douglas, Roman PolanskiDirector: Roman Polanski
Writer: Roman Polanski
Cinematographer: Sven Nykvist
Producer: Alain Sarde
Producer: Andrew Braunsberg
Producer: Hercules Bellville
Writer: Gérard Brach
Writer: Roland Topor
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, 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: One of Roman Polanski's Finest Moments...'Tenant' Strange and Suspenseful...
Summary: 5 Stars
Roman Polanski's REPULSION was a terrifying descent into the world of isolation and complete madness. ROSEMARY'S BABY was a tale of child birth gone satanic with a delusional edge. THE TENANT is one of those psychological thrillers you have to pay close attention to in order to understand and fully grasp the concept of paranoia. It's one of the finest thrillers since Hitchcock's masterful PSYCHO. But THE TENANT is an altogether different experience.
We meet a working class man named Trevoltsky (played by Polanski himself) who is working in Paris and trying to find a new Apartment. We learn in the beginning that the place he's interested in once belonged to a woman by the name of Simone, a woman who was driven to suicide without specific explanation. After Trevoltsky manages to whisk the apartment away and move in, he goes to the hospital to meet Simone, who is in a complete bodycast and has suffered serious injury from her attempt at an end. There, Trevoltsky meets Stella, a young woman who he seems entranced with and is a friend of Simone's. They meet for drinks and go to see a movie, where they end up getting rather hot for each other but must reserve themselves after a few glances from an onlooker. They part ways and Trevoltsky goes off himself.
From there, we watch as the new neighbors of Trevoltsky become irritated with his late night antics and strange manner, and many strange things begin to happen that make Trevoltsky suspect there is something more going on then he's been thinking. For instance, when Trevoltsky discovers a tooth in his wall that was hidden, his reaction is the same as when we see him viewing it, like "where the hell did this come from?" And another instance is when Trevoltsky returns from a late night out with Stella, the landlord demands an explanation for Trevoltsky's actions with a woman that night in his apartment. But Trevoltsky explains he wasn't even there, and the descent into paranoia starts to sink in. Trevoltsky begins to suspect there's a plot against him from the neighbors and tries to let Stella in on this susposed devious madness. But even later in the movie Trevoltsky begins to suspect that even Stella is in on the whole deal with the neighbors and his paranoia starts to stir like crazy. By the time of the movie's climax, we see Trevoltsky has gone completely mad and is dressed like a woman and ends up attempting his suicide twice in the same instance, all the while delusions of the neighbors trying to aide in his demise torment him. He ends up in a body cast much like Simone and his fate is thus sealed.
THE TENANT is one of those thrillers where repeated viewings will get you to appreciate what Polanski has done here. What's he's created turns out to be a fine thriller in the vein of PSYCHO and REPULSION, and his exploration into the world of paranoia and delusions further cements his status as one of the great thriller directors of our generation. THE TENANT remains a fine suspense thriller that will make you think whether the next neighbors you have will leave you guessing at every turn.
Summary of The Tenant
..Similar DVD Movies
HauntingWHV; Release date: 2010-11-09; DVD
Best price: $5.69
Price in other shops:
The Spiral StaircaseSony; Release date: 2005-10-04; DVD
Best price: $7.23
Price in other shops:
The PassengerNICHOLSON,JACK; Release date: 2006-04-25; DVD
Best price: $5.49
Price in other shops:
Stalker: A Film by Andrei TarkovskyKino International; Release date: 2006-11-07; DVD
Best price: $18.85
Price in other shops:
Suspiria (Two-Disc Special Edition)WEA DES Moines Video; Release date: 2007-09-25; DVD
Best price: $9.59
Price in other shops:
The Ninth GateLions Gate; Release date: 2007-05-22; DVD
Best price: $4.15
Price in other shops:
Chinatown (Special Collector's Edition)PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO; Release date: 2007-11-06; DVD
Best price: $19.50
Cul-de-sac (Criterion Collection)IMG; Release date: 2011-08-16; DVD
Best price: $17.09
Price in other shops:
Rosemary's BabyFARROW,MIA; Release date: 2000-10-03; DVD
Best price: $23.00
RepulsionKOC; Release date: 2005-02-08; DVD
Best price: $9.97
Price in other shops: