The Tenant | | Cast : | Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas | | Director : | Roman Polanski | | Studio : | Paramount Home Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | June 11, 1976 | | DVD Released Date : | July 01, 2003 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | May 04, 2005 | | Summary | I'm scared just thinking about it.... | Content
 | Without a doubt, one of the most disturbing and unsettling films ever made. No cheap scare tactics here, simply raw psychological terror. For younger viewers it may bring to mind modern classics like Blue Velvet or River's Edge--both excellent films--but Roman was here first and he does it best. Turn on all the lights, lock all the doors when you watch it. Better yet, watch it in broad daylight. No.... Really, it won't matter when or where you see it, it will scare the bejesus out of you. Guaranteed. Yet another forgotten gem of a film. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 14, 2005 | | Summary | pure Kafka | Content
| The best Kafka put on the screen, even if it isn't based on Kafka. Plus, Polanski does an Ed Wood by wearing a dress! |
| Rating | | | Date | March 10, 2005 | | Summary | One of my favorite love scenes of all time... | Content
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is the one in the movie theatre between Polanski and Adjani.
It took more than one viewing for me to appreciate 'The Tenant'. Paramount's godawful VHS didn't help - but the DVD at least looks beautiful right from the gorgeous Louma crane shot that opens the film.
While this is a tense, dark and sad film, I am surprised that most people don't notice how funny it is. (The same goes for Masamura's terrific 'Manji" - although that is an entirely different kind of film.) The oppressive atmosphere is laced with blackest wit. The main character is pathetic yet still facinating. This is a movie that strikes a number of uneasy balances and manages to carry them off right to the end.
Not, I imagine, everyone's cup of tea - but if you are in the right mood you may find this a richly rewarding bit of cinema. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 08, 2005 | | Summary | The Tenant | Content
| polanski films should be watched chronologically. the tenant stars polanski and documents his ascent into madness. after taking the flat of a girl who committed suicide, polanski, due to his own isolation and psychosis, begins to question his own sanity and blames it on everone else. the beauty here is that the film never allows the audience know what is real and what is concocted until its climax that, at first, resembles a comedy of errors, but develops into an incredily eerie disposition.
i will have the galouises please, i don't care for marlboro either |
| Rating | | | Date | January 25, 2005 | | Summary | Please, be a little bit quieter.... | Content
| No, no Kafka-esque sense of danger. K did not realize the sense of danger. He merely became the small focus of outside forces. That is not danger. It may be inevitability. Trelkovsky willingly goes into "danger". Accepts his need to become that which will cause him grief. K willingly goes on his way. A Pole and a Czech at odds! How delicious! Not to mention bumptious Frenchmen. The movie is about 23.5 minutes too long, however. |
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