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ROMAN POLANSKI directs and stars as Trelkovsky, an expatriate Pole in Paris who takes over the lease of a gloomy apartment and comes to believe that the other tenants in the block are conspiring to drive him to kill himself. The real or imagined conspiracy is supported by the suicide of the previous tenant.

Trelkovsky finds himself assuming the identity of his predecessor, but the twist that sets this film above the competition is that this previous occupant was a girl. Polanski uses this twist to explore the character's latent bisexuality in an atmosphere of paranoia and delusion.

Also starring SHELLEY WINTERS as the Concierge, ISABELLE ADJANI as Stella and MELVYN DOUGLAS as Mr Zy, The Tenant features a cocktail of bizarre coincidences, inexplicable appearances and suggestions of the supernatural all brought together by master craftsman Polanski in this absorbing psychological thriller.

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Customer rating on The Tenant (aka Le Locataire): 4 out of 5 stars

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Customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars Repulsion mark 2

BrettCampbell | 24/07/2007 | See all BrettCampbell's reviews (13) »

Treading similar ground to his previous film 'Repulsion' Polanski himself plays the title character this time. He plays the new tenant of a gothic Parisian apartment block whose other tenants are neurotically obssessed with keeping the noise levels down. Combined with his own obsession with the suicide of the previous female tenant of his room this sends the Polanski character into something akin to madness which includes disturbing visions and scenarios along with a tendency to cross-dress and 'play' the previous tenant. It's a moody piece, eccentric rather than truly disturbing but still well worth a look.

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Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas & Jo Van Fleet

Roman Polanski

18 years and over

1976

Widescreen 1.85:1 Anamorphic

English - Dolby Digital (5.1)

2 hours (approx)

Region 2 - Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players.

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