A Polanski-sanctioned make-up massacre?
I've been re-watching The Tenant the past couple nights a little bit at a time just before passing out and it was the boyfriend who noted the similarity here between Trelkovsky's choice of lady-face and the way Miss Minnie does herself up. It's striking once you notice it. I'd like to think Minnie's hair probably looked a lot like the wig Trelkovsky picks up, too.
But really The Tenant plays as such a fascinating amalgam of two of Polanski's earlier efforts, Rosemary's Baby and Repulsion, don't it? There are scenes (and lines even - "It's a plot! A plot!") in The Tenant that are lifted right out of those two movies, only with Polanski himself playing his own leading "lady." The main character believes his neighbors are plotting against him so he locks himself up in his apartment and begins hallucinating their malevolence everywhere. The doubling extends from the stories themselves straight into his filmography, it does!
But really The Tenant plays as such a fascinating amalgam of two of Polanski's earlier efforts, Rosemary's Baby and Repulsion, don't it? There are scenes (and lines even - "It's a plot! A plot!") in The Tenant that are lifted right out of those two movies, only with Polanski himself playing his own leading "lady." The main character believes his neighbors are plotting against him so he locks himself up in his apartment and begins hallucinating their malevolence everywhere. The doubling extends from the stories themselves straight into his filmography, it does!
Anyway, such a curious and bizarre, in the best sense, sorta film.
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