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To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Well, this is excellent. French-Polish Roman Polanski directs and stars as shy and achingly polite bureaucrat Trelkovsky, who moves into an apartment owned by 'the Concierge' and Monsieur Zy (mighty Hollywood veterans Shelley Winters and Mervyn Douglas). The apartment is appallingly cramped, greasy and doesn't even boast a toilet. Trelkovsky's charming tolerance of the place and fellow tenants - as well as his boisterous and boorish work associates - is effective.To make matters more awkward, the previous tenant, Simone (Dominique Poulange) jumped out of the window in a suicide attempt. A visit to the hospital reveals Simone to now be a howling, broken monster. He strikes up an awkward, but progressive relationship with Stella (Isabelle Adjani, frumped-up behind thick spectacles and a 1970's curls, she gets gradually more bedraggled and beautiful as the story progresses).The bullying ways of those around him, as well as his bouts of bad luck, conspire to throw Trelkovsky into a kind of chronic paranoia. It is a slow decline, and one in which his crumbling, squalid surroundings become a prison, a sick-house. He even sees phantoms of Simone unwrapping the bandages that encompass her and smiling provocatively, revealing a set of broken teeth. He flirts unsuccessfully with cross-dressing. He becomes violent. There is a certain inevitability to the horrific and shocking conclusion.At 126 minutes, this is a long film. But it is sumptuous in its depiction of squalidity, expert in its depiction of a man losing his mind, so full of unexpected moments and so evocatively told, I cannot begrudge it a single moment.The story is based upon the 1964 novel 'Le locataire Chimérique' by Roland Topor; amongst many other credits, Topor appeared as Renfield in Werner Herzog's 1979 'Nosferatu the Vampyre'. Good luck finding a copy for less than £100!

Roman Polanski's masterpiece – The Tenant succeeds to reach our hearts and makes us give further thought about multiple issues brought up in the movie. Simple in style, it is very dynamic. After watching the movie my first thought was that I did not care about the mystery that lies beneath it. I did not care about the plot twist in the end of the movie. I think this movie is important even without that mystery. The sense of loneliness, lack of communication, feeling of being driven by the society and a lot of other aspects makes this movie very valuable.Even though it was shot in 1976, I think it is even more important in our era. The most important issue for me in this movie was the desire of all people in our lives to modify our behavior in accordance to their preferences. This egoistic attitude was most expressly demonstrated by Trelkovsky's obnoxious neighbors, who did not respect his private life and requested absolute obedience from him. But neighbors were not the only ones who did it. The same was done by Trelkovsky's friends. They mocked and criticized him for being weak and with this attitude made it even worse for him to cope with the difficulty of the situation. More than that, this modification gradually transformed into destruction of personality. I loved the scene from Trelkovsky's friend's flat, where he demonstrates his supremacy to Trelkovsky when he clearly insults his neighbor who asked him to make the music low because his wife was ill. The friend tells Trelkovsky that he does not give a damn for his neighbors' situations and thus gives him advice to do the same thing. So where is the margin that lies between our private lives and infringement of other people's private lives by protecting our own. What hurt me the most about the movie was that Trelkovsky tried so hard to be civil, tried to adjust to his neighbors' wishes and desires, did not want to engage in any conflict, but he was continually insulted. As if all people around him understood he was feeble and civilized and used this against him. Instead of opposing those who relentlessly insulted him, Trelkovsky hits the child who had nothing to do with it and finally goes mad. Watching all this happening was very hard. And there are so many other issues you can go on and on about. 10 of 10. The movie is terrific.

How can it be that something so distant can feel so close. This is one of those films that makes me wish I had made it. Crazy I know, but the feeling is real. It's like saying, "oh no, I wanted to tell that story myself" It rarely happens to me but it happened before, I had that feeling with "Purple Noon" and "Apartment Zero" - What's wrong with me, right? - All films of lyrical darkness. "The Tenant" is terrifying and you don't want it to stop. All those Oscar winners, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet, Lila Kedrova and Shelley Winters for goodness sake - permeating the horrible attraction to the building - yes just like in Apartment Zero. Roman Polanski not only directs but also plays the title character, to perfection, I hasten to ad. Like most works of art, it's not for everybody, I know some people I admire who, hate, hate! The Tenant. I get it but I'm sorry because I know they are missing something, I don't know what, but something.

everyone who left their reviews is right about an alienation portrayed by Polansky but probably very few will understand that this is a cause of a Slavic soul in the western world...sort of steppen wolf..especially the end where Trekovsky committed suicide not once but twice!- to prove himself- it is so Slavic!