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The Tenant (French: Le locataire) is a 1976 French psychological horror thriller film directed by Roman Polanski from a screenplay he co-wrote with Gérard Brach, based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Roland Topor.
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.
Roger Ebert September 27, 1976. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Roman Polanski's "The Tenant" was the official French entry at Cannes last May, and in the riot to get into the press screening one man was thrown through a glass door and two more found themselves amid the potted palms.
The Tenant ( French: Le locataire) is a 1976 French horror thriller movie directed by Roman Polanski (who also stars) and is based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Roland Topor. It stars Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet, Bernard Fresson, Lila Kedrova, Claude Dauphin, Shelley Winters and was distributed by Paramount Pictures .
Synopsis. 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.
What to know. Critics Consensus. A rough-edged thriller that lacks the precision of Polanski's best work, but makes up for it with its skillful mounting of paranoia, dread, and dark themes. Read...
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