The Wish To Be a Red Indian: Kafka and Cinema 2024 / Le Locataire / France 1976
A respectable young man named Trelkovsky rents an apartment in Paris, whose previous tenant, Simone, attempted suicide. One day he finds a hole in the wall behind the wardrobe, containing a tooth of unknown origin, not unlike Kafka’s Odradek; Trelkovsky is at a loss what to do with it. The inexplicable episodes that suddenly feature in his life aren’t about to go away – what about those people in the house opposite, with their weird habit of standing motionless in the WC? Trelkovsky starts to turn into Simone, he wears her dress, dons a wig and tries to escape yet, each time, something happens to drive him back to the flat. The Tenant reveals in clear contours the phenomenon of hallucination in Polanski’s films: When does a person stop being his true self?
Lorenzo Esposito
112 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Roman Polanski
/ Screenplay Gérard Brach, Roman Polanski
/ Dir. of Photography Sven Nykvist
/ Music Philippe Sarde
/ Sound Michèle Boëhm
/ Editor Françoise Bonnot
/ Art Director Claude Moesching, Albert Rajau
/ Producer Andrew Braunsberg
/ Production Marianne Productions
/ Cast Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet, Bernard Fresson, Lila Kedrova, Claude Dauphin
/ Contact La Cinémathèque de Toulouse
Roman Polanski (1933, Paris). Selected filmography: Knife in the Water (Nóż w wodzie, 1962), The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967), Rosemary’s Baby (1968), Chinatown (1974), The Tenant (Le Locataire, 1976), Frantic (1988), Bitter Moon (1992), The Pianist (Le Pianiste, 2002), Oliver Twist (2005), An Officer and a Spy (J'accuse, 2019).
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