The Tenant

Where does one person’s identity end and another begin? The Tenant is the final installment of Polanski’s Apartment Trilogy, and it is (by far) the most bizarre and puzzling of them all. It is a tale of the loss of Trelkovsky’s identity, a man who is both a victim and an aggressor. It is confusing, deliberately so, and the narrative refuses to tell us what is real, who to believe. Oftentimes, through a dark and isolating and claustrophobic lens, we experience Trelkovsky’s paranoia alongside him. The Tenant is like a fever dream, a nightmare, from start to bleak, nonsensical end.