Polanski's apartment trilogy is an apartment thriller, the film's performance, music, colors, costumes, sets are also quite perfect, superb suspense preparation and detail processing, countless details make each character image become three-dimensional and full, the whole scene scheduling is very realistic, full of surrealist film imagery - cracked walls, rotten rabbits, moldy potatoes, interpersonal relationship alienation and numbness, social ideology distortion and alienation, so that innocent people also become sick and lost, and then panic and despair, Cold, fearful, anxious, the rhythm is just right, gripping.
Le locataire (1976)
Also known as: The Tenant
Directed By: Roman Polanski
Writers: Gérard Brasz / Roman Polanski / Laurent Topol
Starring: Roman Polanski / Isabelle Adjani / Mauvin Douglas / Shelly Winters
Genre: Drama / Suspense / Thriller
Country/Region of Production: France / United States
Language: French / English
Synopsis: Tarkovsky, an introverted young Polish, comes to Paris alone, hoping to rent an apartment here. Simon Shaw, the former tenant of this room, committed suicide by jumping off a building for unknown reasons. After Simon died of exhaustion in the hospital, Tarkovsky smoothly became a new tenant.
The joy of housewarming did not bring him much joy, and the oppressive atmosphere around him invaded his nerves all the time. This old apartment is home to many old-fashioned and dull people who complain that Tarkovsky is making too much noise, co-branding out other tenants... Although this poor young man was careful to deal with it, he was gradually forced into a desperate situation by them. Tarkovsky begins to realize the reason for Simon Shaw's suicide, and at the same time he discovers that he is also being led to the end of destruction by this group of strange tenants...
Repulsion in Cold Blood (1965)
Also known as: disgust / reverse / rejection
Writers: Roman Polanski / Gérard Brasz
Starring: Catherine Deneuve / Ian Hendry / John Flasser / Yvonne Funux / Patrick Waimark / more...
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Horror
Country of Production: United Kingdom
Language: English
Carol, who came to London from Brussels, is an employee of a local beauty salon. In this strange metropolis, the youthful and beautiful Carol tried to suppress the restless desire in her heart, and she showed some anxiety and neurosis. Although there is a young and handsome young man Colin who pursues it relentlessly, Carol prefers to stay with her sister Helen. Compared with her nervous sister, Helen seems to be quite accustomed to this society, and she falls in love with a husband with a wife, and the two meet to use the holidays to travel to Italy. However, Helen's departure brings Carol's spirit to the brink of collapse, and an irreparable tragedy is staged...
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Also known as: Devil's Child (Hong Kong) / Lost Baby (Taiwan) / Rosemary's Baby / Devil's Baby
Writers: Roman Polanski / Ella Levine
Starring: Mia Farrow / John Casavetti / Ruth Gordon / Sidney Blackmer / Maurice Evans / more...
Genre: Drama / Suspense / Horror
Country of Production: United States
Synopsis: Kay has a thin and fragile wife, Rosemary, and since they moved to the new apartment, Kay has been having a good time with an elderly couple in the neighborhood. Rosemary, on the other hand, did not particularly like the neighbors, and what made her uncomfortable was the ensuing series of strange things.
Rosemary saw the woman who committed suicide, and in the increasingly strange atmosphere of life, she still had creepy dreams. In a dream, a long-haired monster invaded her, and soon after Rosemary woke up from the nightmare, she learned that she was pregnant. The neighbor's wife came to take care of Rosemary and the baby in her womb, but Rosemary gradually became suspicious that all the strange things came from this outwardly kind and kind neighbor, and even had her own husband! They were conspiring to calculate Rosemary's baby. Was it Rosemary's hallucination or was it real? When she saw that the baby who had been born had no pupils in her eyes, Rosemary knew that the breath of the devil was near.