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...TENANT...
Like much of Roman Polanski's work, The Tenant is a comedy tipped with poison. As in Rosemary's Baby or Cul de Sac, laughter comes as much from astonishment, even outrage, as it does from humor. Polanski has a carbolic wit and discovers unplumbed depths of amusement in emotional deformity, physical abuse and psychic shock waves. If Chinatown found Polanski in a slightly more mellow mood -owing probably to the keyed-down romanticism of Robert Towne's screenplay-The Tenant shoots him right back to the center ring of his absurdist circus...
There is never any doubt that Trelkovsky will take over not only the living quarters of the previous tenant but her fate as well. Polanski is not interested in surprise endings: those visitations across the courtyard may be predictable, but they are all the more chilling because of that...
...often is with Polanski, what in the movie is genuinely frightening and what is just cynical. It may be that this, after all, is a separation impossible to make, and that Polanski's distinctive vision is rooted as much in glibness as in genuine darkness. The Tenant, then, would stand as perfect, typical Polanski, a dank joke, a nightmare in jester's dress...
...tenant group representing Boston's Columbia Point housing project has asked the John F. Kennedy Library Corporation to employ a minority consulting firm to study the impact of the library complex on the project...