Shout Factory has announced the upcoming release of Director Roman Polanski’s brilliant study in alienation and paranoia, The Tenant (1976) on Blu-ray.
An apartment with an unhappy past sets the stage for filmmaker Roman Polanski’s riveting psychological suspense thriller, The Tenant. Polanski stars as Trelkovsky, a quiet, timid file clerk increasingly overshadowed with dread and fear after he moves into his new apartment. Adding to his paranoia are the building’s other occupants, who do nothing to alleviate his growing obsession with the untimely, tragic fate of the apartment’s previous tenant. Is Trelkovsky’s dread truly justified – or is it simply the result of his seemingly disintegrating mental state?
It’s an exercise in urban paranoia and mental disintegration that echoes or anticipates everything from Repulsion and Rosemary’s Baby to Bitter Moon and The Pianist.
J. Hoberman — Village Voice
A brilliant international cast – Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet, Bernard Fresson and Shelley Winters – and Polanski’s own penchant for delivering unprecedented suspense (Repulsion, Rosemary’s Baby, Chinatown) make The Tenant a haunting, riveting film classic!
Release date: July 28, 2020
Genre: Drama / Thriller
| Director | Roman Polanski |
| Cast | Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas |
| Country | France |
| Production Year | 1976 |
| Discs | 1 Blu-ray Disc |
| Region | A |
| Run Time | 125 minutes |
| Formats | Color / 1.85:1 |
| Audio | English |
| Subtitle | English |
| AKA | Le locataire |
| Studio | Shout Factory |
Special features
| NEW Apartment To Let – An Interview With Co-Writer/Director And Star Roman Polanski |
| NEW The Invisible Performer – An Interview With Assistant Cameraman François Catonné (In French With English Subtitles) |
| NEW Keeping Continuity – An Interview With Script Supervisor Sylvette Baudrot (In French With English Subtitles) |
| NEW A Visit To The Locations Of The Tenant |
| NEW Audio Commentary With Film Historians Troy Howarth And Nathaniel Thompson |
| NEW The Tenant: An Audio Essay By Samm Deighan |
| Audio Interview With Writer Roland Topar By Journalist Frédéric Levy (1980) (In French With English Subtitles) |
| Audio Interview With Screenwriter Gérard Brach By Journalist Frédéric Levy (1986) (In French With English Subtitles) |
| Theatrical Trailer |
| Optional English subtitles for the main feature |
The end result is somewhere between Franz Kafka and William Castle, but still worth seeing.
Dave Kehr — Chicago Reader
The Tenant (1976) trailer
Notice: The picture quality of these videos do not reflect the picture quality of the Blu-ray or DVD in this package.
