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Was this review helpful? The sense of loneliness, lack of communication, feeling of being driven by the society and a lot of other aspects makes this movie very valuable.Even though it was shot in 1976, I think it is even more important in our era.

What can be said, really... "The Tenant" is a first-class thriller wrought with equal amounts of suspense and full-blown paranoia. It uses many of the tropes of the genre: the sinister apartment, suspicious neighbors, apparitions, mysteries, hallucinations. A provocation of sorts.

And these egyptian hieroglyphs and other egyptian stuff ? A dress of the former tenant is left behind, and for some reason, not explained in the film, Polanski keeps the dress throughout the entire movie. And then they are found to be true again. "The Tenant", "Rosemary's Baby", "Kiss Of The Spider Woman", "Apartment Zero" are films I've seen many, many times. A must have for any art film lover's collection. The next morning, only an abandoned sleeping bag left proof of their appearance. I get it but I'm sorry because I know they are missing something, I don't know what, but something. The apartment has some strange power in it and quickly transforms the new tenant's life for the worse...in fact things literally fall apart for him. Roman Polanski is considered as one of the most important directors of our time, as the mind behind classics such as "Rosemary's Baby" and "Chinatown". Was this review helpful?

He really shows why he...Thank you for mentioning "Maggie".

The Tenant is a powerful, interesting and bizarre cinematic experience that's been somewhat overshadowed and devalued (by some) because of Roman Polanski's real life misdeeds of that period. This is one of my favourite Polanski films as it is morbid to the extreme (hence you may experience a reflex type of reaction with laughter) and absurd in a great way. Some knowledge of art and film history is helpful here. First of all, it is not for everyone; the movie has a surreal postmodern nature which might befuddle viewers not used to this kind of film. The influence of the French New Wave is clear in this movie, especially that it is set in Paris. Horrifying early on because of the seeming mean and self obsessed fellow tenants and horrifying later on as he develops his defences which will ultimately be his undoing. Was this review helpful? Polanski finds the invisibility of his characters and makes something enormous out of it. Meanwhile he visits Simone in the hospital and befriends her girlfriend Stella (Isabelle Adjani). 19 out of 38 found this helpful.

After an apartment-warming party thrown by a group of obnoxious coworkers, Trelkovsky comes under increased, seemingly inexplicable scrutiny by the fellow occupants in his building; the rest of the film chronicles his mental deterioration and gives us a thorough mindfu*k on par with the later efforts of David Lynch. Nevertheless it could have worked without and would have removed the slightly theatrical element, but then maybe that was intended because the courtyard certainly seems to take on the look of a theatre at the end. "The Tenant" is terrifying and you don't want it to stop. Normally a great fan of Roman Polanski's work, I must confess that I just didn't get The Tenant. 133 out of 152 found this helpful. In my opinion if you have watched the film the movie the only and only reason as far as i have got is auto-suggestion of the tenant that made himself to believe that the same story of the former lodger is gonna happen to him,from the very first moment that he visited her in the hospital he just prompt to himself that he will have the same story as her and little by little he confronted more and more horrible issues that just made such thoughts be more realistic to him so the amount of auto-suggestion even got worse in a way that he disguised and made a complete different character of what he really is and lead him to that terrifying end.

19 out of 38 found this helpful. Poe's tales of madness out of loneliness, Hoffmann's stories of tragic delirium (most prominently, The Sandman, Majorat, and The Mines of Falun), and, of course, Gogol's eerie The Overcoat provided Polanski with the inspiration for this modern examination of the same topics. This beautifully directed and photographed movie seems to be full of allusions.

As with much of Polanski's work, there is a dose of black humour laced throughout.

I vividly remember Ebert giving it one star and it was supposedly booed at Cannes. A dress of the former tenant is left behind, and for some reason, not explained in the film, Polanski keeps the dress throughout the entire movie. 4 out of 5 found this helpful. These scenes are underlined with a very dark, amusing edge and an appropriate irony to the film's denouement. The life of the hero, Trelkovsky, seemed surrounded by evil, secret forces trying to drive him mad. But the most weired thing is of course his transformation in Simone Choule and the fact, that he doesn´t know, who he really is. Like most works of art, it's not for everybody, I know some people I admire who, hate, hate! Last night, I saw "The Tenant" again for the nth time.

He becomes convinced that the other tenants are trying to turn him into the woman who committed suicide.

Instead, she saw me and declared, “Oh, BARRY, I’m so happy to see you!