
The Tenant
Apartment for rent: Quiet building. Furnished. 2 rooms. Previous tenant committed suicide.
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Release Date
5/26/1976Runtime
126 minsOverview
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
Status
ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
-Revenue
$5,100,000Homepage
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A meticulously composed descent into psychological claustrophobia where an apartment building becomes a pressure chamber of suspicion and unreality. Polanski's precise, detached direction transforms mundane domestic anxieties into an inescapable nightmare.
Mood
ParanoidUnsettlingDread-soakedClaustrophobic
Themes
IdentityIsolation
Tone
Bleak
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
FormalistHigh-contrast
Structure
Single location
Heads up
Suicide and self-harmBody horror
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