An unemployed executive is forced to sell his apartment. When he discovers that he still has the keys, he becomes obsessed with the family that now lives there and decides to recover the life he has lost, at any price.
“Meandering character development undercuts The Occupant 's exciting premise, though Javier Gutiérrez's exceptional performance makes the proceedings work.”
The film waves off character development and merely side-eyes its frustrations with capitalism in its rush to convince us that this dullard is in fact a supervillain
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Ian Freer
RTEmpire MagazineApr 1, 2020
It's not without some pleasures but never really grips the way it should.
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James Kendrick
RTQ Network Film DeskSep 13, 2020
tarts as an intriguing, and sharply observed portrait of middle-age frustration and failure in an unforgiving culture of materialism and competition before morphing into a thriller that increasingly defies credulity
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Pablo O. Scholz
RTClarínJun 29, 2020
Javier Gutiérrez knows how to give his character touches of ambiguity and confusion, to generate uncertainty in the viewer. [Full review in Spanish]