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Le Locataire (26-May-1976)

Director: Roman Polanski

Writers: Gérard Brach; Roman Polanski; Roland Topor

Keywords: Thriller, Alcoholism, Crossdressing, Suicide

Polanski stars as an expatriate Polish-American as the tenant inhabiting a new apartment, taking up the lease from a dead Parisian girl. The life of a bachelor cosmopolitan excites him, but inevitably madness, stigmata, and emasculation send him spiraling into a symbolist nightmare.

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