Documentaries

ROMAN POLANSKI: WANTED AND DESIRED

Marina Zenovich
USA 2008
99 min
V'08

Roman Polanski is certainly admired and respected as one of the world's greatest film directors. But his reputation has been forever tarnished by his public conviction for having unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor some thirty years ago, and his subsequent flight from the United States to avoid going to jail. At least that's what everyone thinks. In her riveting reopening of this controversial and, as it turns out, very complex case, filmmaker Marina Zenovich fashions a perceptive and intelligent exploration of what really happened those many years ago, and casts a very different light on Polanski's decision as well as the workings of the legal system.
Revisiting all of the key players - the lawyers, the victim, and the media - and focusing on the conduct of the judge whose handling of the case was definitely unusual, as well as unearthing telling footage from the past and incorporating insightful interviews from the present, Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired develops a case for a clear miscarriage of justice. But far from being an apologia for Polanski, the film is simply trying to bring comprehension and clarity to events long clouded by myths and presump-tions. (Sundance Film Festival)

Credits
  • Joe Bini
  • Marina Zenovich
  • P.G. Morgan
  • Tanja Koop
  • John Iskander
  • Joe Bini
Antidote International Films c/o The Weinstein Company 45 Hudson Street, 13th Floor New York, NY 10014, USA T 646 862 3400 international@weinsteinco.com

The Weinstein Company 45 Hudson Street, 13th Floor New York, NY 10014, USA T 646 862 3400 international@weinsteinco.com

35 mm
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