Review of The Tenant (1976) by Stephen M — 30 Oct 2007
The third and least acclaimed part of Polanski's 'Apartment Trilogy', which was preceded by "Repulsion" and "Rosemary's Baby", is still a great movie loaded with creepy, haunting imagery.
Although, inevitably, Polanski was accused of repeating himself with "The Tenant" it's actually quite different from the earlier films. For one thing, it's a black comedy rather than a straightforward psychological horror.
The plot is wonderfully cyclical, fairly obscure in meaning, but not irritatingly so as with, for example, "The Ninth Gate". Ingmar Bergman's great cameraman Sven Nykvist's photography is superb and the film is only let down by some poorly re-recorded dialogue; excepting Polanski, Melvyn Douglas and Shelley Winters, nearly all of the vocal parts are dubbed.
This review of The Tenant (1976) was written by Stephen M on 30 Oct 2007.
The Tenant has generally received very positive reviews.
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