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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792179283
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792179285
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 01, 2003
Running Time: 125 minutes
Sales Rank: 14825
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: June 11, 1976
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
After the triumph of Chinatown, Roman Polanski's The Tenant marked an unsettling return to the horrifying psychodrama of Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby. As in those previous films, Polanski explores a descent into madness with subtle, deliberate pacing and keen attention to accumulating details. Cannily casting himself in the title role, Polanski plays the mild-mannered occupant of a Parisian flat previously rented by a woman who committed suicide by leaping from her upper-floor balcony. The woman's leftover belongings and the harsh attitudes of disapproving neighbors (including Melvin Douglas and Shelley Winters) begin to grate on the new tenant's psyche; his paranoia shifts from simmering anxiety to full-blown psychosis, until fate itself seems to run in a complete, tragically tormenting circle. Polanski masters the material as only he could, and despite some critical drubbing at the time of its release, The Tenant has earned a place among Polanski's finest films. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Not Sure if It's a Suspense or a Spoof of One, but It Succeeds at Neither.
Roman Polanski and Gerard Brach, the screenwriting team behind Polanski's 1965 apartment house horror film "Repulsion", had less success in adapting Roland Topor's novel "Le locataire chimérique" for the screen. It's difficult to say if "The Tenant" is trying to be a suspense or an absurdist parody of a suspense, but it hardly matters, as the film is neither scary nor funny. I can say with certainty is that it is too long. It feels like the story has been forcibly stretched. Ironically, the premise ... Read More
Rating:  - I think I'm pregnant!
The Tenant is without doubt, Polanski's best film ever...in my opinion! I love the slow burning paranoia and depth of madness that the main character spirals into.
Was this madness already in him or was he driven to madness by those nieghbours!
I think it is the poetry of madness.
Roman Polanski does brilliant acting, I actually think he was born for the part.
When he transforms completly into Simone you believe it totally. That classic line that he/she says as she looks into ... Read More
Rating: - Would have been decent, except for the ending
This movie has some creepy aspects to it and the sound combined with the low-lighting is excellent, but the ending is terrible. It threw the paranoia/suspense into the toilet by making the story "come full circle".
The movie IS slow, so it requires some patience, but if you've seen other Polanski movies, then this should be no surprise. There are some unexplained parts, one of the main ones being the tooth, but rather than letting it be irritating just run with it.
My favorite part were ... Read More
Rating: - Artsy to a fault
There are two types of people that don't like this movie: Those that don't understand it (I pity those) and those like me that think the movie was just a little too strange for their liking. I understand the theme of paranoia ingrained in the movie, I understand that he was so nervous about people accepting him, that his mind shattered and he dressed up as the woman that used to live there. You see the contrast between him and "Real" men in the movie. But at the same time, the ending was too much, ... Read More
Rating: - Appreciation comes only when viewed as a psycology thriller
I am not a fan of the genre, but I think most viewers did not approach the film "The Tenant" for truly what it is: a psychological thriller. Trelkovsky (Roman Polanski) suffers from schizophrenic psychosis and yearns to be a female. Simone is his Id and he turns into Simone at night where he goes to the bar next door and buys Marlboro cigarettes and hot chocolate, etc. In the day, he buys men's cigarettes (Gaulloise) and drinks dark coffee. The moment when he was standing with Stella early in the film ... Read More
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