The Tenant (1979)

The Tenant is a 1976 psychological thriller film directed by Roman Polanski, starring Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, and Shelley Winters. It is based upon the 1964 novel Le locataire chimérique by Roland Topor. The film is also known under the French title Le Locataire. It is the last film in Polanski's "Apartment Trilogy", following Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tenant

In Paris, the shy bureaucrat Trelkovsky rents an old apartment without a bathroom where the previous tenant, the Egyptologist Simone Choule, committed suicide. The unfriendly concierge (Shelley Winters) and the tough landlord Mr. Zy establish stringent rules of behavior, and Trelkovsky feels ridden by his neighbors. Meanwhile, he visits Simone in the hospital and befriends her girlfriend Stella. After the death of Simone, Trelkovsky feels obsessed with her and believes his landlord and neighbors are plotting a scheme to force him to also commit suicide.

source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074811/

***SPOILER ALERT***

These little details in Trelkovsky's hallucinations are awesomely eeeeevil. I wonder how it felt leaving the theater after watching this movie back in 1976.

So many questions... what's with the tooth on the wall? The hieroglyphs? The last scene??

I got lost in all the paranoia and conspiracy, and you will too! This is a movie worth watching again soon.

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