The Tenant
14,078
Horror. Thriller
Meek clerk Trelkovsky takes over a Parisian flat from a woman who has committed suicide. He meets Stella, one of the woman's friends, and begins a tentative relationship with her, but runs afoul of his imperious landlord Mr. Zy, the offensive concierge, and another tenant named Madame Dioz who wants him to sign cruel petitions against people he doesn't know. Soon Trelkovsky is experiencing all kinds of hallucinations, mainly of people ... [+]
Author | Review | ||
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United States | Village Voice | "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'." | POS |
United States | rogerebert.com | "'The Tenant's' not merely bad -- it's an embarrassment. If it didn't have the Polanski trademark, we'd probably have to drive miles and miles and sit in a damp basement to see it (...) Rating: ★ (out of four)" | NEG |
United States | Chicago Reader | "The end result is somewhere between Franz Kafka and William Castle, but still worth seeing" | POS |
United States | The New York Times | "'The Tenant' (...)is the most successful and most consistently authentic Polanski film in years" | POS |
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