Visual Essay: Roman Polanski's "The Tenant" (1976)
20Music: Philippe Sarde - "Apparitions"/"Cour D'Immeuble"
Additional music: Leszek Jankowski - "Street Of Crocodiles" by Brothers Quay (1986)
To say anything would be to risk ruining the visual and auditory experience. This is more than a mere "film tribute" (of which I have done many) ... it is an audiovisual essay that digs deep into the dark heart of the film.
Let us just say that The Tenant was the first film that I really paid attention to from an adult perspective, unlike the films of my childhood, adolescence and coming of age.
It was one of first films I saw that made me want to go back to the theater again and again and re-watch it. I saw it in NYC in June 1976 at the age of 22. Two other films, Logan's Run and Ingmar Bergman's Face To Face held my interest as well. But neither made me want to go back for seconds. This one had me going back for thirds. And over the next few years, fourths, fifths, and sixths ... until it was an easily accessible premium cable film.
For me, the period 1975-76 marked a new beginning for cinema ... and the start of an unprecedented era in film making that would, unfortunately, only last another ten years.
Although I was not fully aware of it at that time, the music score by Philippe Sarde would be another asset of the film, the movie soundtrack or score, that I would become increasingly more aware of as the years passed. Now, as a music video / short film creator who has delved into the work of Bernard Herrmann, Ennio Morricone, Jerry Goldsmith, Angelo Badalamenti, Nino Rota, and many others I know deep to the heart just how important music is to the success of any visual venture, be it a feature film, short film, or even a documentary.
This essay would be 100% Sarde except for a feeling I had to also use the music of Leszek Jankowski from the Brothers Quay short, Street Of Crocodiles, in a few scenes. The initial scene the music appears in is quite similar to a scene in the Quay Brothers short. See if you can determine the "matching scenes."
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