+9
I don't think
The Tenant is embarrassing, but it is definitely second tier Polanski for me, pretty forgettable, and the weakest movie he made in the decade. It feels like Polanski very self consciously and too lazily making a "Polanski movie", or at least what some segment of the critics and populace thought that was, which was fun for me at the beginning and for a rare scene here and there...then it just degenerates from winking silliness and some genre fun into tedium. I will watch
Rosemary's Baby (a masterpiece) and
Repulsion fifty and ten times each before I would think to pop in
The Tenant again.
But, it clearly has its fans, including a voting block here on MoFo.
The Tenant was on seven ballots, two people had it in their top ten (a sixth and a tenth place vote).
Saturday Night Fever was also on seven ballots, and its two top tens were a third place (from cricket) and a fourth (from mojofilter).
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Last edited by Holden Pike; 07-31-17 at 03:26 PM.