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The Tenant
Directed by
Roman Polanski
R
1976
2h 6m
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A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
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Cast of The Tenant
Roman Polanski
Trelkovsky
Isabelle Adjani
Stella
Melvyn Douglas
Monsieur Zy
Jo Van Fleet
Madame Dioz
Bernard Fresson
Scope
Shelley Winters
Concierge
Lila Kedrova
Madame Gaderian
Claude Dauphin
Husband at accident
Claude Piéplu
Neighbour
Rufus
Georges Badar
Romain Bouteille
Simon
Gérard Jugnot
Office Clerk
Josiane Balasko
Viviane, Office Worker
Michel Blanc
Scope's Neighbor
Jacques Monod
Cafe Owner
Patrice Alexsandre
Robert
Jean-Pierre Bagot
Policeman
Florence Blot
Madame Zy
Louba Guertchikoff
Wife at accident
Jacques Chevalier
Patron
Jacky Cohen
Stella's friend
David Gabison
Witness at accident
Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
Bar waiter
Alain Frérot
Begger
Raoul Guylad
Priest
Éva Ionesco
Bettina, Madame Gaderian's daughter
Héléna Manson
Head Nurse
Maïté Nahyr
Lucille
André Penvern
Cafe waiter
Gérard Pereira
Drunk
Dominique Poulange
Simone Choule
Arlette Reinerg
Tramp
Jacques Rosny
Jean-Claude
Serge Spira
Philippe
Vanessa Vaylord
Martine
François Viaur
Police Sergeant
Albert Delpy
Neighbor (uncredited)
Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alain Sarde
Peeping tom (uncredited)
Philippe Sarde
Man staring at Trelkovsky in the movie theatre (uncredited)
Marie-Christine Descouard
One of the women at the bar (uncredited)
The Tenant Reviews
New York Times
Vincent Canby
The film is superbly acted by Mr. Polanski, Mr. Douglas and Miss Winters.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
As a film by Polanski, it's unspeakably disappointing.
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
Owing to the very same personal urgency that makes it a masterpiece, it is overwhelmingly solipsistic and ultimately alienating.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
The Tenant carries the most shocking double climax in all of cinema.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
The Tenant isn't so much a psychological portrait of grief as it is an unnerving acknowledgement of the ambiguous nature of the world.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
The end result is somewhere between Franz Kafka and William Castle, but still worth seeing.
Variety
Variety Staff
It has a humorous tang, underlying the macabre.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
It's an exercise in urban paranoia and mental disintegration that echoes or anticipates everything from Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby to Bitter Moon and The Pianist.
The Barb (Atlanta)
Steve Warren
It's strange stuff, and too subtle for people who like The Exorcist and The Omen, but The Tenant is a real horror movie.
New Times (magazine)
Richard Corliss
A few years ago, Polanski made.an enjoyably bizarre movie in Carlo Ponti's villa, and called it What? His new movie, not unbearable but simply insubstantial, could be called So What?
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
This creepy psychological thriller, dealing with paranoia and split identity, is one of Polanski's most underestimated films.
Los Angeles Free Press
Jacoba Atlas
Unfortunately, [Roman Polanski's] current film, The Tenant veers dangerously close to parody and evokes not horror but laughter.
Cinefantastique
Steve Biodrowski
Although overshadowed by director Roman Polanski's more famous horror efforts... The Tenant is in many ways superior - a haunting, mesmerizing tale of a man's loss of identity and descent into madness.
United Press International
David Dugas
If only Polanski, who collaborated with Gerard Brach on the script, had not let this parable on paranoia become so predictable and preposterous. Well before the end, The Tenant succumbs to meaningless and therefore boring hokum.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Poorly received on its release, it has since become a cult fave.
Ladylike
Laurie Ann
The Tenant is a complex, obtuse, but fascinating film. The acting is superb.
The New Yorker
Penelope Gilliatt
The Tenant is a poetic nightmare about punishment imposed on an unguilty man who merely entertained great fear of guilt.
Rob's Movie Vault
Rob Gonsalves
Absorbing but not recommended for those looking for an easy good time.
TV Guide
The film [is] extremely, scarily effective (it is also surprisingly funny).
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