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The Tenant is a 1976 psychological horror film by Roman Polanski, based on a novel by Roland Topor. It is the third and final film in Polanski's "Apartment Trilogy", following Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby.
May 26, 1976 · The Tenant: Directed by Roman Polanski. With Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet. A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
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- Drama, Thriller
- Roman Polanski
- 1976-05-26
Roger Ebert pans Roman Polanski's 1976 horror film "The Tenant" as an embarrassment and a waste of his talent. He criticizes the plot, the ending, and the acting of the movie, and compares it to other horror anthology films.
Polanski plays Trelkovsky, a quiet, timid file clerk whose unremarkable life becomes increasingly overshadowed with dread and fear after he moves into his new home.
Trelkovsky (Roman Polanski), a quiet and unassuming Polish immigrant living in France, rents an apartment in Paris whose previous tenant, Egyptologist Simone Choule, attempted to commit suicide by throwing herself out the third-floor window and through a pane of glass below.
A brilliant international cast – Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet, Bernard Fresson and Shelley Winters – and Polanski's own penchant for delivering unprecedented suspense ...
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