Fresh
It has a humorous tang, underlying the macabre.
Variety Staff, Variety
The Tenant
Apartment for rent: Quiet building. Furnished. 2 rooms. Previous tenant committed suicide.
1976 · 2h 6m · R
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Roman Polanski
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The Tenant
Overview
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
Director and cast
- Roman Polanski Director
- Roman Polanski as Trelkovsky
- Isabelle Adjani as Stella
- Melvyn Douglas as Monsieur Zy
- Jo Van Fleet as Madame Dioz
- Bernard Fresson as Scope
- Shelley Winters as Concierge
- Lila Kedrova as Madame Gaderian
- Claude Dauphin as Husband at accident
- Claude Piéplu as Neighbour
- Rufus as Georges Badar
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
85%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The film is superbly acted by Mr. Polanski, Mr. Douglas and Miss Winters.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Rotten
As a film by Polanski, it's unspeakably disappointing.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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
Fresh
The end result is somewhere between Franz Kafka and William Castle, but still worth seeing.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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