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The Tenant
Directed by
Roman Polanski
R
1976
2h 6m
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A bachelor man rents a Parisian apartment whose previous tenant committed suicide, and slowly finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
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Cast of The Tenant
Roman Polanski
Trelkovsky / Director / Screenplay
Isabelle Adjani
Stella
Melvyn Douglas
Monsieur Zy
Jo Van Fleet
Madame Dioz
Bernard Fresson
Scope
Shelley Winters
Concierge
Lila Kedrova
Madame Gaderian
Claude Dauphin
Husband at accident
Claude Piéplu
Neighbour
Rufus
Georges Badar
Romain Bouteille
Simon
Gérard Jugnot
Office Clerk
Josiane Balasko
Viviane, Office Worker
Michel Blanc
Scope's Neighbor
Jacques Monod
Cafe Owner
Patrice Alexsandre
Robert
Jean-Pierre Bagot
Policeman
Florence Blot
Madame Zy
Louba Guertchikoff
Wife at accident
Jacques Chevalier
Patron
The Tenant Ratings & Reviews
The New Yorker
Penelope Gilliatt
The Tenant is a poetic nightmare about punishment imposed on an unguilty man who merely entertained great fear of guilt.
The Barb (Atlanta)
Steve Warren
It's strange stuff, and too subtle for people who like The Exorcist and The Omen, but The Tenant is a real horror movie.
Rob's Movie Vault
Rob Gonsalves
Absorbing but not recommended for those looking for an easy good time.
United Press International
David Dugas
If only Polanski, who collaborated with Gerard Brach on the script, had not let this parable on paranoia become so predictable and preposterous. Well before the end, The Tenant succumbs to meaningless and therefore boring hokum.
New Times (magazine)
Richard Corliss
A few years ago, Polanski made.an enjoyably bizarre movie in Carlo Ponti's villa, and called it What? His new movie, not unbearable but simply insubstantial, could be called So What?
Ladylike
Laurie Ann
The Tenant is a complex, obtuse, but fascinating film. The acting is superb.
Los Angeles Free Press
Jacoba Atlas
Unfortunately, [Roman Polanski's] current film, The Tenant veers dangerously close to parody and evokes not horror but laughter.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
This creepy psychological thriller, dealing with paranoia and split identity, is one of Polanski's most underestimated films.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Poorly received on its release, it has since become a cult fave.
TV Guide
The film [is] extremely, scarily effective (it is also surprisingly funny).
Cinefantastique
Steve Biodrowski
Although overshadowed by director Roman Polanski's more famous horror efforts... The Tenant is in many ways superior - a haunting, mesmerizing tale of a man's loss of identity and descent into madness.
Variety
Variety Staff
It has a humorous tang, underlying the macabre.
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
Owing to the very same personal urgency that makes it a masterpiece, it is overwhelmingly solipsistic and ultimately alienating.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
The Tenant carries the most shocking double climax in all of cinema.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
The film is superbly acted by Mr. Polanski, Mr. Douglas and Miss Winters.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
As a film by Polanski, it's unspeakably disappointing.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
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.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
The Tenant isn't so much a psychological portrait of grief as it is an unnerving acknowledgement of the ambiguous nature of the world.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
The end result is somewhere between Franz Kafka and William Castle, but still worth seeing.
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