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The Tenant (Widescreen)

Roman Polanski (Actor), Isabelle Adjani (Actor), Roman Polanski (Director) | Rated: R (Restricted) | Format: DVD
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After the triumph of Chinatown, Roman Polanski's The Tenant marked an unsettling return to the horrifying psychodrama of Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby. As in those previous films, Polanski explores a descent into madness with subtle, deliberate pacing and keen attention to accumulating details. Cannily casting himself in the title role, Polanski plays the mild-mannered occupant of a Parisian flat previously rented by a woman who committed suicide by leaping from her upper-floor balcony. The woman's leftover belongings and the harsh attitudes of disapproving neighbors (including Melvin Douglas and Shelley Winters) begin to grate on the new tenant's psyche; his paranoia shifts from simmering anxiety to full-blown psychosis, until fate itself seems to run in a complete, tragically tormenting circle. Polanski masters the material as only he could, and despite some critical drubbing at the time of its release, The Tenant has earned a place among Polanski's finest films. --Jeff Shannon

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5.0 out of 5 stars Disturbing and addictive, Nov 14 2009
This review is from: The Tenant (Widescreen) (DVD)
It's inside my head and I can't get it out.

When you watch this one for the first time you think; what the....? But you are compelled to watch it again and again. It is bizarre and creepy and very typical of Roman Polanski. You can feel the madness closing in around you right along with the central character which in this case is played by Roman Polanski himself.

If you liked Rosemary's Baby, I think you will like this one. It isn't nearly as obvious but that is the beauty of it. The more you watch it, the better it gets. And if you live in an apartment, it just might have you looking over your shoulder.

Oh and by the way, and Shelly Winters is great as the miserable old concierge!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Polanski at his best!, Dec 13 2006
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Eric Simard "The welder bear" (Montreal,Qc) - See all my reviews
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The best Polanski film i have seen yet. It's simply brilliant.The acting is realy good.I was stun by the plot but specially by it's spectacular ending.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The Tenant, Mar 8 2005
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Ashley Allinson (Alliance Atlantis) - See all my reviews
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polanski films should be watched chronologically. the tenant stars polanski and documents his ascent into madness. after taking the flat of a girl who committed suicide, polanski, due to his own isolation and psychosis, begins to question his own sanity and blames it on everone else. the beauty here is that the film never allows the audience know what is real and what is concocted until its climax that, at first, resembles a comedy of errors, but develops into an incredily eerie disposition.
i will have the galouises please, i don't care for marlboro either
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