The Tenant
by Roman Polanski
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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 2
Audio: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), Mono; English (Subtitled); Arabic (Subtitled); Bulgarian (Subtitled); Croatian (Subtitled); Czech (Subtitled); Danish (Subtitled); Finnish (Subtitled); German (Subtitled); Greek (Subtitled); Hebrew (Subtitled); Hungarian (Subtitled); Icelandic (Subtitled); Italian (Subtitled); Norwegian (Subtitled); Polish (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Romanian (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Mono; French (Original Language)
Format: PAL
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 126 minutes
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Movie Reviews of The Tenant
Movie Review: For film enthusiasts who love hypnotic, disturbing atmosphere. Among Polanski's tip-top films.
Summary: 5 Stars
Roman Polanski became one of cinema's most capable film directors, and THE TENANT is among his very finest works in or out of Hollywood.
Polanski has an unparalleled ability to externalize and visualize human insanity, or impending insanity, and to portray that condition of mind on-screen in a way that is clear and understandable and palpable to a broad audience.
Other filmmakers certainly have portrayed hallucination, for instance, but rarely do we see a film that requires no explanation, interpretation or telegraphing, regarding which images are delusional.
Roman Polanski needs no such decoder ring. He has a positive genius for devising images and shots which portray delusions as we would expect them to be; we quickly know what is illusion, what is reality, and what is, at a given point in his story's time line, still ambiguous for the story's purpose.
THE TENANT is a delectable treat for those viewers who can appreciate a journey into darkness, odd personalities, and extremely wry humor generated by nothing more contrived than human characters we've all encountered ourselves at some time or another.
The film segues deftly and seamlessly -- from serious moments, to undeniably hilarious moments, to moments of disturbing, frightening images leading inexorably to sub-climaxes, large or small, of stark horror.
THE TENANT is a fully formed film from start to finish, starting benignly enough (as with REPULSION) and developing into moments of human dysfunction to make one's skin crawl.
The last act and its climax are full of emotional complexity and revelation -- but so, in its way, is Polanski's first act as it establishes the protagonist's off-kilter existence at his new apartment.
The film is perfectly visualized with a sound effects track as inspired as that of ROSEMARY'S BABY. There are clues in it that casual viewers may miss.
Until REPULSION, this film's closest relative, is remastered, sharpened and fully framed, THE TENANT will stand unchallenged in Polanski's stellar career as his most disturbing film.
A slight spoiler: The scene in which a woman's decapitated head is bouncing like a basketball with hair flying at Roman's balcony window would clinch this film's creative reputation single-handedly. But combined with the elderly folk in the downstairs apartment who blast their stereo with old standards and marching music for their own unique reasons, you have something far beyond the realm of mundane horror films. This is thoughtful art exploring aspects of the human condition, inspired by a director with a singular eye for things quintessentially unsettling.
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