The Tenant
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Actor: Isabelle Adjani, Jean-Pierre Bagot, Josiane Balasko, Michel Blanc, Patrice AlexsandrePrimary Contributor: Isabelle Adjani
Primary Contributor: Melvyn Douglas
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Running Time: 126 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-07-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of The Tenant
DVD Review: The Apartment Building From Hell (Great Psychological/Supernatural Thriller From Roman Polanski)
Summary: 5 Stars
Strange. Bizarre. Creepy. These are words that can be used to describe Roman Polanski's "The Tenant." They can also be used to describe the residents of the Parisian apartment building into which Trelkovsky (Roman Polanski) moves. The former resident, Simone, leaped from the window and laid, wrapped like a mummy, in the hospital before dying. Soon, Trelkovsky believes that there is a conspiracy among the neighbors to force him to also commit suicide Does this diabolical conspiracy exist only in his insane imagination or is it real? The viewer never knows for sure and this makes the film highly provocative.
Having watched Polanski's occult masterpiece, "Rosemary's Baby," I can't help but believe that Trelkovsky is part of a complex Satanic conspiracy. The neighbors are Satan worshippers who have conspired to drive him insane and force him to commit suicide as a type of human sacrifice. They treat him as though he is Simone, giving him her mail and serving him her hot chocolate and Marlboros. He receives her photograph of the Egyptian sarcophagus from the Louvre. Next, he sees Egyptian hieroglyphics on the wall of the communal bathroom - the wall upon which residents have been seen staring as though entranced. There is also the human tooth embedded in his apartment wall. Simone's tooth? It would imply that part of her lives on in the apartment, preserved like a mummy, for eternity. Perhaps it is her soul, or ghost, that compels him to wear her clothes and put on a wig.
Commentary from Roman Polanski, explaining the mystery behind the apartment building and its residents, would've been nice. As usual, Paramount has provided us with an awesome reproduction of the film but has not taken the time to add special features except for a short trailer. There are, however, English subtitles for us hearing impaired.
"The Tenant" is highly recommended for fans of psychological horror, fans of occult thrillers, and fans of Roman Polanski's works. I have not seen his "Repulsion" but I hear that it also deals with the deterioration of a warped psyche.
DVD Review: Roman Polanski's "The Tenant"
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Tenent" is one of Polanski's many successful horror adaptions. Roman Polanski as an actor is at times a little wooden, but the film stands alone for it's faithfulness to the novel and a unique atmosphere of mounting dread and disquiet that so many of today's horror films sadly lack. Shelly Winters and Joe Van Fleet also give very good, yet understated performances in this small, but terrifying thriller of identity crisis and paranoia.
4/5*
DVD Review: Speedy delivery
Summary: 5 Stars
almost like those good pizza places that deliver in under 30 minutes! excellent condition ... had my order with in 5 days of me placing my order!!! and i have a lot problems with ppl on amazon. this one worked out excellentDVD Review: DON'T BE FOOLED
Summary: 2 Stars
DONT BE FOOLED GUYS. THIS IS NOT A GREAT FILM NOT EVEN A GOOD ONE.
THOSE WHO LIKE THIS FILM HAVE VERY LOW STANDARDS. HERE ARE SOME OF THE
OBVIOUS SHORTCOMINGS. TERRIBLE ACTING (INCLUDING SHELLY WINTERS WHO WAS NEVER ANY GOOD), HORRIBLE EDITING, BUT MOST OF ALL THE TRANSFORMATION FROM SANE TO INSANE FOR THE MAIN CHARACTER DOES NOT PLAY WELL AT ALL AND IS NOT CONVINCING.THIS IS A VERY MODEST AND STANDARD STORY MAUFACTURED IN A MEAT MARKET. FOR THIS POLANSKI WAS CONSIDERED A GENIUS.IF YOU DONT AGREE WITH THIS REVIEW JUST WATCH ALL HIS FILMS AFTER THIS ONE - THEY ONLY GET WORSE.
DVD Review: Not Sure if It's a Suspense or a Spoof of One, but It Succeeds at Neither.
Summary: 2 Stars
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 chim?rique" 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 is essentially the same as in "Repulsion": A tenant descends into schizophrenic madness amid odd neighbors and eerie production design, alone in his apartment.
A Parisian bachelor named Mr. Trelkovsky (Roman Polanski) takes a dingy 2-room apartment in an old building, whose crotchety concierge (Shelley Winters) explains, "The previous tenant threw herself out of the window." His visits that former tenant, Simone, in the hospital, where he meets her friend Stella (Isabelle Adjani). But Trelkovsky, surrounded by Simone's belongings, can't get her suicide out of his mind. He sees people standing for hours in the toilet opposite his apartment. He is exasperated by the accusations of the building owner and the intrigues of his neighbors. Even Stella's kindness can't dispel his mounting paranoia.
The only good thing I can say about "The Tenant" is that Polanski's Trelkovsky seems authentically unassuming up to a point: He's genuinely pleased to find an apartment, embarrassed by his annoying co-workers, and really trying to be a nice guy. But nothing is interesting beyond that. His hallucinations and obsessions are more comic than frightening, but not enough to be entertaining, and his suffering inspires no empathy. To be clear, all dialogue is in English, which substitutes for French, presumably to make the film more commercial. The Paramount 2003 DVD includes a theatrical trailer (1 min). Subtitles are available in English. Dubbing available in French.
Description of The Tenant
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 ShannonGeneral DVDs
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