The Tenant
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Movie Reviews of The Tenant
Movie Review: ONE WORD: SCARY!
Summary: 4 Stars
Made the mistake of watching this at night, alone at home. How's that for the eerie Polanski-of-yore ambience! A Russian man in Paris rents an apartment where the previous tenant committed suicide. This gentleman, like you and I, does not "comprehend suicide" so he wonders why the girl had jumped to death. As he convinces himself that he'll never meet the fate that awaited his predecessor in the apartment, his paranoia very gradually takes over as he finds quaint neighbors. Was it loneliness? Was it an egregious fear of NOT wanting to turn out like the previous tenant? Whatever the reason, the movie soon takes on contours of blurring the Reality with the Imagined, and it is very, very scary. I checked on the cover twice during the movie to make sure it wasn't "horror."
Frankly, the first time I was just plain scared and even felt gyped at the end. But I bet if you watch it again, you too will notice some nuance that escaped you first time round.
What a brilliant movie. And it makes you think hard and long about your own predicament regardless of how/what/who you presently are.
Recommended, so long as you can stomach some murky paranoia that taints the movie from start to end!
Movie Review: superlative - polanski used to experiment at that time
Summary: 4 Stars
Surrealist visions, hallucination, urge-vision, lost dimension, memory derangement - everything is part of the movie - it is symbolic - it shows you how association and nature of circumstances and surroundings helps to superimpose one character on another or it is like the human evolution (more about mutation) - this is a story about a tenant (soft spoken immigrant) in a poor paris neighbourhood - he sacrifices his comforts to live in a desent place but his neighbours throw the torch at him - they take him to the edge and he starts living in a world of hallucination - he cross dresses and starts to identify with the previous renter of the same apartment who commited suicide by jumping from the window
This is a very different Polanski - of coarse polansky himself plays in this movie as a mild mannered immigrant in Paris - it shows the xenophobia in Paris for other cultures and loved it - look for the fine expressions and the nature of pain as it happens to human life
Movie Review: Effective, though not perfect
Summary: 4 Stars
This creepy but not entirely effective thriller features Roman Polanski (also the director) as the title character, a quiet Parisian who has just moved into an apartment. The previous tenant was a young single woman who -for unknown reasons - committed suicide by throwing herself out her window. Once he moves in, he starts being harrassed by his neighbors and starts seeing strange things and begins to wonder if the previous tenant was driven to kill herself.
Are the neighbors evil, is there something supernatural going on or is he just going crazy? Or is it a combination of these possibilities? We are kept guessing through a lot of the movie, and even in the end, there can be different interpretations.
This is a good movie, but not the best of Polanski's efforts. Parts of the movie are tediously slow and other parts are confusing, but as a whole, this is a well-made film: creepy, suspenseful and generally entertaining.
Movie Review: Polanski's Paranoia
Summary: 4 Stars
I like THE TENANT better with each viewing. It's similar in mood to REPULSION (some call this the "male version" of that film), and is the last chapter of what others have called the Apartment Trilogy (along with REPULSION and ROSEMARY'S BABY). Polanski fans will love this, more mainstream fans might think the pace is a little too slow. I think it's great. Watch Polanski slide into madness, similar to Catherine Deneuve's slide in REPULSION, though he starts on more firm ground than did she. Polanski is superb as Trelkovsky, nobody else could have played the role. Watch this with the English subtitles (no matter what audio track you choose), as you'll need them at points. I watched this on video without subtitles, struggled through some quiet dialogue and occasionally Polanski's accent, and then watched the DVD with subtitles. It made a world of difference. One of my favorite neglected films, I recommend it highly.Movie Review: Roman Polanski film THE TENANT
Summary: 4 Stars
This film was not well received when it was first released, it did not gain the success that Rosemary's Baby did. Although it is still an interesting film, and should be noted. Polanski stars in the film as the film's central character, a character like the character (Carol) in Repulsion or even Rosemary (Rosemary's Baby) the character's inner world is turned inside out through paranoid delusions, that at times, it is difficult for us or the characters in these films to tell what is real, the line becomes blurred, between reality and fantasy. Which makes for a great cinema. This film is less heavy than Repulsion and doesn't take it self so seriously, which is why it works on that level.