The Pianist
2003
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Roman Polanski (born 1933) is a Polish-French filmmaker. Filmography. Feature films. As director. Year Title ... TV movie 1992 Back in the USSR: Kurilov 1994
- The Tenant
The Tenant. The Tenant ( French: Le locataire) is a 1976...
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Co-star John Huston Polanski returned to Hollywood in 1973...
- The Tenant
Co-star John Huston Polanski returned to Hollywood in 1973 to direct Chinatown (1974) for Paramount Pictures. The film is widely considered to be one of the finest American mystery crime movies, inspired by the real-life California Water Wars, a series of disputes over southern California water at the beginning of the 20th century. It was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, including those for ...
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Trelkovsky, a quiet and unassuming man, rents an apartment in Paris whose previous tenant, EgyptologistSimone Choule, attempted suicide by throwing herself out of the window and through a pane of glass below at 39 Rue de Calais. Before moving in officially, he meets the concierge, who shows the apartment to him, and also shows him where Simone fell...
Overview
In his review of the film for The Regrettable Moment of Sincerity, Adam Lippe writes: "Many would attest that The Pianist is Polanski's most personal work, given the obvious Holocaust subject matter, but look beneath the surface, and when the window curtains are drawn aside, Polanski's The Tenantshines brightest as the work closest to his being." Like the other two films in Polanski's Apartment Trilogy, The Tenant blurs the line between psychological thriller and horror. It garnered critical...
Kafka influence
Many critics have noted The Tenant's strong Kafkaesque theme, typified by an atmosphere that is absurdly over-burdened with anxiety, confusion, guilt, bleak humour, alienation, sexual frustration and paranoia. However, the film cannot be viewed as purely driven by a Kafkaesque motif because of the numerous references to Trelkovsky's delirium and heavy drinking. This allows for more than one interpretation. Most of the action occurs within a claustrophobic environment where dark, ominous thing...
Doomed cycle, loss of self, and social assimilation
The Tenant has been referred to as a precursor to Kubrick's The Shining (1980), as another film where the lines between reality, madness, and the supernatural become increasingly blurry (the question usually asked with The Shining is "Ghosts or cabin fever?") as the protagonist finds himself doomed to cyclically repeat another person's nightmarish fall. Just like in The Shining, the audience is slowly brought to accept the supernatural by what at first seems a slow descent into madness, or vi...
Development
Although typically labelled as the third part of Polanski's so-called "Apartment Trilogy", this came about more by luck than by design. The film adaptation was originally to have been made by British director Jack Clayton, who was attached to the project around seven years before Polanski made it. According to Clayton's biographer Neil Sinyard, Clayton originally tried to make the film ca. 1969 for Universal Studios, from a script by Edward Albee, but this version never made it into productio...
Filming
The film was shot on location in Paris, France.
The film was entered into the 1976 Cannes Film Festivaland had a total of 534,637 admissions in France.
The Tenant at IMDbThe Tenant at AllMovieThe Tenant at Rotten TomatoesThe Tenant at the TCM Movie Database5. The Fearless Vampire Killers. 1967 1h 31m Approved. 7.0 (34K) Rate. 56 Metascore. A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress. Director Roman Polanski Stars Jack MacGowran Roman Polanski Alfie Bass.
19 Videos. 99+ Photos. Roman Polanski is a Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few truly international filmmakers. Roman Polanski was born in Paris in 1933. His parents returned to Poland from France in 1936, three years before World War II began.
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- Paris, France
Director Roman Polanski Stars Donald Pleasence Françoise Dorléac Lionel Stander. 5. The Fearless Vampire Killers. 1967 1h 31m Approved. 7.0 (34K) Rate. 56 Metascore. A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress. Director Roman Polanski Stars Jack ...
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Jan 31, 2018 · What began as a passion project ended as the worst movie in Polanski’s rich filmography. “Pirates” was an artistic and commercial bomb, which earned only $6 million at the box office against a budget of $40 million, of which a considerable part was invested into building a fully functional replica of a Spanish galleon.
