this oddity from roman polanski clearly show where his preoccupation lay at the time he make it . polanski himself play a timid man who rent a parisian apartment where the previous tenant commit suicide . he become obsess with discover what lead her to it and to the point that he dress in drag and reenact event the way they might have unfold . the movie unsettling to a point and and it have that atmosphere of creepy dread that polanski excels at and but it come off too much a a rehash of rosemary baby and repulsion and two other good polanski film that deal with the eerie going on in moody apartment . but a for the preoccupation . unless i be read too much into the film and i have to believe that this be polanksi reaction to the feeling of persecution he felt at be label a sexual pervert and exile from america . not make a judgement about him one way or the other myself and but it hard to deny the evidence of that in the movie itself . grade represent b plus .