DOCUMENTARY: Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired (2008)

NOTES ON A SCANDAL

Months before Roman Polanski was placed under house arrest in Switzerland (he was in Zurich to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award) in September 2009 on pending charges of unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in Los Angeles in 1977, came a documentary chronicling the incident that changed the course of the famed director’s life. Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired by Marina Zenovich methodically delves into the events leading up to the harrowing trial that unfolded under the media glare and the flip-flops of presiding judge Laurence J Rittenband who clearly emerges as the villain of the piece, finally forcing Polanski to flee America in 1978, never to return to that country.