The Tenant

Roman Polanski

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The Tenant

Synopsis

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

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Cast

Roman PolanskiTrelkovsky
Isabelle AdjaniStella
Melvyn DouglasMonsieur Zy
Bernard FressonScope
Shelley WintersThe Concierge
Gérard JugnotOffice Clerk
Josiane BalaskoOffice Worker
Raoul GuyladPriest
Lila KedrovaMadame Gaderian
Jo Van FleetMadame Dioz

Recommandations

100
Slant Magazine
Polanski brilliantly evokes an evil society’s almost supernatural ability to recognize weakness in others and to punish all that is good.
88
Chicago Tribune
Terrifying and darkly funny. [13 Jun 2004, p.C4]
80
Village Voice
it may be the director's quintessential movie. 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."
80
The New York Times
The film is superbly acted by Mr. Polanski, Mr. Douglas and Miss Winters, who might not be entirely convincing as a Parisian concierge in a realistic film, but who fits into this nightmare perfectly.
75
TV Guide Magazine
Technically, The Tenant is superb, with stunning camerawork by Sven Nykvist, an eerie score by Philippe Sarde, and thoroughly convincing performances from the entire cast. (Review of original release)
75
The A.V. Club
Though the result is too slow and curious, with a weak lead performance by the writer-director, The Tenant's tone of abstracted anxiety is distinctive, and its central message, that the obnoxious define the world for everyone else, provides another tile in Polanski's career mosaic of paranoia and power brokerage.
70
Chicago Reader
The end result is somewhere between Franz Kafka and William Castle, but still worth seeing.
60
Variety
A tale of a paranoid breakdown of a little bureaucratic clerk that wastes no time in trying to be clinical. It has a humorous tang, underlying the macabre. (Review of original release)