A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where the previous tenant committed suicide, and begins to suspect his landlord and neighbors are trying to subtly change him into the last tenant so that he too will kill himself.
The film is superbly acted by Mr. Polanski, Mr. Douglas and Miss Winters.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
9 May 2005
rotten:
As a film by Polanski, it's unspeakably disappointing.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004
fresh:
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.
– J. Hoberman,
Village Voice,
3 Feb 2004
fresh:
The end result is somewhere between Franz Kafka and William Castle, but still worth seeing.