Is Polanski's "The Tenant" Off Da Hizzy Or What?

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ravissante!

I saw this film once years and years ago and it always stuck with me and now I've just read the novel it's based on - it's a really short novel, I read it in an afternoon - and I kind of don't want to see it again. Having Isabelle Adjani as Stella seems like a terrible piece of casting. Polanski as an insignificant little twerp is perfect but for the equally insignificant and ordinary Stella they cast Isabelle Adjani? Fuck off!

I don't actually remember much about the movie itself but Fassbinder's film of "Despair", which came out a year later, seems to cover some similar ground? I probably didn't pick up on how much of it is about anti-Semitism when I saw it first.