here be the example of a film that be not well receive when it be make and but whose stand seem to be raise in time . the tenant be quite an interesting work by polanski and one of the first of his european exile . it be set in paris and and a in so many other exile film the city and it street and the seine and especially the building where the action take place play an important role . it be just that polanski choose his principal character not to be an american ( a in frantic for example ) but a pole and a himself be when go west . there be actually a lot of personal commentary in this film and make at what must have be a time of crisis in the director life and and the fact that he decide to play the lead role ( and do it masterfully ) may also be see a some kind of exorcism . it in a way a circular story . the hero name trelkovsky rent an apartment in old parisian building and inhabit by what seem to be first a well assorted team of grumpy old or just ridiculous neighbor . the previous tenant try to commit suicide by jump out of the window of the flat and and trelkovsky have just the time to visit her in the hospital before she die and meet there her young and beautiful friend stella ( a spectacled isabelle adjani in her first role after truffaut lhistoire dadele h. ) . soon the neighbor do not seem to be what they be and it a conspiracy to make him crazy and or to make him enter the life and role of the dead girl . he fight and try to run and enter the game and end by enter the circle and slowly become her . the circle be close . it not the most believable story we may have see or hear and but the strength of the film do not reside in the story but in the detail of the psychology and in the slow degradation of the mental state of the hero and in the permanent balancing game between reality and delusion . to a certain extent it be not what happen on the screen that matter and but how it happen and remind the classical knife in the water make more than a decade before and at the end of the polish period of polanski . there be many detail that be never explain and but then this be how mystery film must be and this be actually how life be sometimes . the feeling of claustrophobia slowly contaminate the viewer . unfortunately some of the graphical detail in the last part of the film be not too well execute and the english spoken dialog ( the film be make in english ) almost neutralize the overall atmosphere . however and wait for the final punch scene be very worth the patience . it not the best film that polanski make and yet have many good part and it show the hand and the style of the director and and be a significant step in the building of his career .