The Tenant (Roman Polanski, 1976) - Trailer Podio Polanski? Podium Polanski (3) Because, inevitably, a podium is stupidly narrow when one has a filmography like his; however, this is the Polanski I like the most, the European who returns to be European in Europe, essentially playing at home, except that the home is a nightmare, as usual. The Polanski of the apartment delirium is my favorite, this one and that of "Repulsion," I mean, a little less so for the nonetheless splendid Rosemary and the brilliant "Carnage." Perhaps my favorite Polanski film even though it has a strong competition of at least 5 or even 6 other films. Restoring the partnership with Brach, glorious in the 1960s, here’s the film that no one just out of a condominium meeting should ever watch. Open to multiple interpretations, with the author rediscovering himself as a director-writer and actor like in the days of the semi-comedy about vampires and an Isabelle Adjani who here begins to flirt with horror and the grotesque until, later, she becomes it herself (different film, different story). Kafka is always mentioned, that’s fine, but it's also a horror version of Fantozzi (also from the same year, everything returns), poor Trelkovsky. The horror in this masterpiece is on multiple levels, for example, Polanski dressed as a woman—stuff that would haunt the dreams of even the strongest hearts for weeks after watching, or the apartment with a toilet view, that alone would be enough to throw oneself out of the window, never mind the Egyptians.