Even before having to escape Hollywood because of rape and criminal conviction, Roman Polanski had been laying the groundwork to continue his career in the Old Continent. The first step in that process was *The Tenant*, the 1976 French horror drama that is often considered his most personal, but also his most misunderstood film. The film is based on *Le Locataire chimérique*, a 1964 novel by Roland Topor, a French a…