i once live with a roommate who attempt suicide and and our apartment be in a building where you could get a fifty dollar noise violation for sneeze after midnight so and needless to say and i can easily relate to polanski the tenant . but i also enjoy the film for other reason . i be not sure that it work and on the whole the polanski character descent into paranoia and madness and which take up the final half hour or so and seem rather jarring and bizarre . ebert and for one and be totally unconvinced and and he slap the movie with a vicious one star review . but i think that individual scene and moment work beautifully and so even though i do not quite understand the whole film what do egyptology have to do with it and for example . i still have an overall positive impression of it . i love the obnoxious friend portray by bernard fresson and for example . god and how many time have i settle for have stupid friend like that instead of no friend at all . i love the movie theater scene the funny make out moment in the history of film and i would say . and boy and do i love isabelle adjani she so foxy in this movie and it almost unbelievable . and she give a great performance and a always . polanski be a good actor and too while i do not agree with the occasional disparaging remark make about his performance here . his character be suppose to be low key and thoughtful and so his low key performance fit . i and for one and find him perfectly sympathetic though he do lose me a bit when he start dress in drag for no clearly discernible reason . yes and the movie obscure . and slow . but it capture the alienate quality of apartment live something i have do entirely too much of so i dig it . it funny how all you need be a common reference point and and suddenly a weirdo movie like this become deeply significant . definitely worth pick up for pocket change on dvd .