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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. [4]
- $5.1 million
- Philippe Sarde
- Andrew Braunsberg
May 26, 1976 · A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia. The film is part of a trilogy by Polanski dealing with the horrors faced by apartment and city dwellers, and features his own performance as the main character.
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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.
A Polish immigrant in Paris rents an apartment where a woman tried to kill herself and becomes obsessed with her and her friends. He faces paranoia, hostility and isolation from his neighbors and landlord, and his mental state deteriorates.
The Tenant is a film about alienation, paranoia, and isolation, similar in many ways to Polanski's Repulsion from a decade earlier, managing to effectively establish a disorienting sense of mental ...
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Selected as a Most Anticipated title by People, Parade, Bustle, CrimeReads, She Reads, and more! An electrifying work of literary suspense from internationally bestselling author Katrine Engberg, The Tenant—heralded as a “stunning debut” by #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs—follows two Copenhagen police detectives struggling to solve a shocking murder and stop a killer ...
