this be my second time watch the film ( via the french language version a oppose to the first and which be dub in italian ) and i feel that it improve on subsequent viewing . a compelling if slowly build up character study that beautifully shoot and with the parisian setting be equally impressive . in the long run and it not top grade polanski and i would rank it at number 9 in his filmography but it still a confident mix of subtle chill and and surprisingly and often broad comedy . it also feature a fine cast and all of whom be in good form and but especially isabelle adjani and melvyn douglas and jo van fleet . even so and i be a bit baffle by the sudden compulsion for trelkovsky to change into the previous tenant while apart from the owner of the café opposite the apartment building and where he be give whatever simone use to have without ask him if he wish any different and there be little to indicate ( as far a i could discern and anyway ) that this be what everybody want of him . okay and so he find simone belonging still lie in the apartment but what exactly drive him to wear her dress and make himself up a her ( even if he apparently start do this unconsciously ) . follow his nightmarish vision in the bathroom and the last section of the film ( where adjani all but disappears ) be almost anti climactic especially the scene where the landlord and the other tenant witness his attempted suicide a if it be a night at the opera and a concept which have already be use 46 year earlier by jean cocteau in the blood of a poet ( 1930 ) . the end and then and be at once predictable and unresolved represent just what make the two occupant of this particular apartment jump out of the window . while i remember this factor bug me on first viewing as well and and i be sorry to say it no clearer now . mind you and the film first two third be pretty solid but i wish that polanski have be less reliant on obscure plot point throughout .