Roman Polanski directed and co-wrote The Tenant (Le locataire). It is based on the same-named novel published in 1964. Other cast includes Isabelle Adjani and more. The film's opening amused me with Polanski's interactions as a meek person attempting to win the hearts of others by his smile, kindness, and polite conduct. Because the film's topic is paranoia, this individual descends into insanity, mimicking the last tenant, a young woman who committed suicide by jumping off the window. This movie is overly lengthy at 2 hours and 5 minutes, and it loses your interests after an hour.

Please watch it. It's a masterpiece

All Time Classic. There is effectively only one death and it's not even onscreen. This doesn't need gore, exploitation, jump scares, or shock value because it's such an original and twisted idea. The core idea is so relatable whether you live in an apartment, dorm, or even in a house on a street. You have to ask yourself how do you know the people who live around you? Most of the time you barely speak to them within a block or two radius. Let alone the entire neighborhood. It lets your imagination run wild as too what they could be like and this runs wild with it in the most original and twisted way possible. On top of that, this is brilliantly directed. Masterful editing, excellent cinematography, an a perfectly paced buildup. This starts fine enough and takes it's time not being so much a slow burn but building and getting really twisted and creepy with the ideas it's suggests. The music is really good though not used a lot. It's very effective when it is and this really isn't that dry ever. The acting is really good too with Polanski being the standout with a really strong supporting cast. He's kind of pedestrian at first but as it gets weird and twisted the more he shines. The twist is fantastic also and really is worth the payoff. Anyone who is a fan of Polanski, any actors in this, or horror films will like this a lot. One of the most unique horror films I've ever seen. It's Rosemary's Baby mixed with rear Window effectively.

It is interesting that the movie is more well liked now than it was upon its original release. I think the reason is that it's arthouse and anxiety vibes horrors are more of our moment than they were in the 70s.

A good one, I didn't appreciate it that much, but still a good one. Maybe I need a rematch.

The last film Roman Polanski made before becoming a societal pariah, The Tenant seems him making not just an onscreen appearance, but actually playing the lead role. This was an odd choice, and doesn't necessarily work to the films advantage. He does well as the meek and mild mannered individual at the beginning, but he doesn't have the acting range or the charisma to truly sell his descent into madness. He does, however, direct the film very well. There's lot of mirrors, reflections and close up shots that make us feel like we're being watched. It's a film about the effect that constant browbeating, harassment and bullying can have on a person, even one as outwardly kind as our protagonist. It creates a lingering sense of dread and paranoia, and you try your best to put the puzzle pieces in place before our lead completely loses his mind. It does take a long time to start paying off, and some scenes feel more redundant than creepy, but as a subtle horror film that slowly draws you in before hitting you square in the face, The Tenant makes for a suitably unnerving experience.

It was okay... I was hoping to see something more like Rosemary's Baby. I thought it was going there, but then it didn't. It didn't look like the tenants had anything to do with this guy's mind trip. I thought the story itself was clever, but I don't know what to do with it. What actually happened here? I have no idea, but the story was entertaining nonetheless.

Roman Polanski's "The Tenant" is everything you want from its director. Absolute must see for every "Repulsion" and "Rosemary's Baby" fan. As far as I'm concerned, it's one of the best films of all time. Cinema at its best.

The director played it by himself. This is another paranoia psychological thriller made by him, self-abusive, and I assume more personal than the other his major works, that's why I enjoyed. He was troubled in real life at that time. By seeing this, "Repulsion" and "Rosemary's", I believe he had terrible experiences about apartments/houses.

Other than the fact that he is a French citizen of Polish descent, we learn very little about Trelkovsky (Roman Polanski) over the course of Polanski's The Tenant. Residing in the apartment of a young woman who has committed suicide, Trelkovsky soon begins to believe that the residents of the building are trying to drive him to a similar fate. 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 anguish and desperation. While it excels on most fronts, what keeps it from being a great film is the abysmal dubbing, where the French actors have seemingly had their lines replaced by English non-actors, which proves to be distracting throughout. And why does nobody in Paris speak French, or at least speak English with French accents?

Honestly - we loved Rosemary's Baby... this movie was boring and pointless. Skip.

Chi ama il cinema ama Polanski!

I must recognize the merits of Roman Polanski's type of horror: he knows how to build subjectivity, and that's why "Rosemary's Baby", for example, is excellent; he also knows how to make a gradual sensation of paranoia, and at his "Apartment Trilogy", Catherine Deneuve, Mia Farrow and Polanski himself are excellent on that role. These films have another thing in common, besides taking place in an apartment and building a paranoic atmosphere: at least for me, they aren't rewatchable. I know they're classic, especially "Rosemary's Baby", to which I give all the laurels, but none of them really conquered me. For me, Polanski's cinema is enjoyable, but to see only once (which puts him in front of directors like Wes Anderson and Taika Waititi). In "The Tenant", the shining trio is Roman Polanski, Melvyn Douglas (Monsieur Zy, the landlord) and Shelley Winters (the Concierge). The ambience is cool and the plot too, despite a little bit predictable. Isabelle Adjani is the "least good" character here. Unlike "Repulsion", the ending is fantastic. Yes, even dragged, it's still fantastic. It's solidly the second best film of the Apartment Trilogy.

The film is not really scary, just kind of weird and bizarre. Unfortunately, it's not weird or bizarre enough to recommend.

Am a huge fan of Polanski, therefore it is obvious that I love this movie like anything, especially when I have a thing for such kind of films. Roman Polanski also stars in the title role. The story is about a man who rents an apartment, circumstances leads him paranoid. Anything else about the movie is going to spoil the viewing experience. Just go ahead and enjoy the film.

Roman Polanski's third film in his apartment trilogy (the first two being 1965's Repulsion and 1968's Rosemary's Baby) deals with how isolation and submissiveness can drive a person to delusions, though in reality probably not to this extent. The film has no clear understanding of what happened, but it's an interesting ride.

This could've been a great movie, if Roman Polanski didn't play the lead, the protagonist Trelkovsky is a complex character that only a top actor could convey to the audience, everything was in place except that, this is supposed to an extremely paranoid person and Polanski never looks worried about anything, the supporting cast had to overact to make him look passive and that made them look bad, put all that together and the actions he takes doesn't fit the person we see, it ends up being a wasted opportunity.

Acclaimed filmmaker Roman Polanski stars and directs this old suspense/thriller A woman named Simone used to live in an apartment that Trelkovsky is now renting Apparently she fell out of a window ending up in a coma, some rule it as an attempted suicide After visiting her in the hospital he runs into her girlfriend Stella, they both develop a deep affection Trelkovsky then becomes suspicious of all his neighbors to the point of paranoia where he can't trust anybody The concierge and the landlord layout the ground rules but as time goes on he goes overboard to where he must take matters into his own hands This movie definitely gets more bizarre as it goes along With Trelkovsky exhibiting strange behavior it turns into a weird experience The film like a lot of things is too long and it takes forever to get to the juicy stuff If there were more scenes of paranoia I'd prolly give this a higher praise It just comes off as average even from an acclaimed director like this But I get where Polanski was heading with the paranoia, fear, dreadful themes and mentality disintegration

Artful and disturbing, The Tenant offers many of the themes that Polanski featured in Rosemary's Baby, primarily the horrors of living as an urban dweller with oppressive, encroaching neighbors. Polanski uses some expert forced perspective and fantastical shots here that elevate elements of psychological horror. However, The Tenant seems to stretch interminably long in places where Rosemary's Baby seems well paced. It's a difficult balance to maintain because Polanski is so concerned with establishing a normalcy to smash with the film's conclusion.

An excellent film with a disturbing atmosphere. The director uses with talent a palette of simple but very effective sound and visual effects to describe an ineluctable descent into madness, in this place populated by disturbing characters and dark corridors.