Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired DVD 2008 Roman Polanski: Az elítélt Géniusz / Directed by Marina Zenovich / Starring: Samantha Geimer, Roman Polanski, David Wells, Sharon Tate

UPC 5999544258228

REGION 2 PAL DVD

MADE IN Hungary

AUDIO: English 2.0, Hungarian 2.0

SUBTITLES: Hungarian

Total Runtime: 96 MINUTES

English Summary:

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired is a 2008 documentary film directed by Marina Zenovich. It concerns film director Roman Polanski and his sexual abuse case. It examines the events that led to Polanski fleeing the United States after being embroiled in a controversial trial, and his unstable reunion with his adopted country.

Roman Polański; born 18 August 1933 in Paris; original name Raymond Thierry Liebling) is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer, and actor.

His Polish-Jewish parents moved the family back from Paris to Kraków in 1937. Two years later, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany starting World War II and the Polanskis found themselves trapped in the Kraków Ghetto. After his mother and father were taken in raids, Polanski spent his formative years in foster homes under an adopted identity, trying to survive the Holocaust. Polanski's first feature-length film, Knife in the Water (1962), was made in Poland and was nominated for a United States Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He has since received five more Oscar nominations, along with two BAFTAs, four Césars, a Golden Globe Award and the Palme d'Or of the Cannes Film Festival in France. In the United Kingdom he directed three films, beginning with Repulsion (1965). In 1968, he moved to the United States and cemented his status by directing the horror film Rosemary's Baby (1968).

Metacritic rates Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired a score of 78/100 based on 16 reviews ("generally favorable"). Rotten Tomatoes scores the film at 89% positive reviews based on 46 reviews.

Cathleen McGuigan, reviewing the film for Newsweek, referred to the film as "deft and subtle" and particularly noted "an enigmatic little scene near the end [where] [y]ou see a fierce old whale of a man in a chair, banging a drum while an elfin youth jumps and hops to the beats, like a puppet on a string. The hopping boy finally escapes his tormentor by scurrying and tumbling across a field, running toward the Eiffel Tower in the distance. The tyrannized, barefoot kid is Polanski himself, and the footage is from a 16-minute short called 'The Fat and the Lean' that he made in 1961, on the brink of his fame as a brilliant new European director. The wordless scene may last less than a minute in Marina Zenovich's documentary, but it sticks with you, and it echoes another clip in her film. This one is from a television interview Polanski did decades later where he says he felt like 'a mouse with which an abominable cat was making sport.' The cat in question was Los Angeles Judge Laurence J. Rittenband, who'd presided over the director's 1977 criminal case for having sex with a 13-year-old girl."

Hungarian Summary:

Roman Polanski kicsit szomorkás, de igaz és zseniális filmjei örökké beírták magukat a történelembe. Mégis van hely, ahol legszívesebben a börtön hűvös és nyirkos falai közt látnák. Miután boldog házasságát egy brutális gyilkosság törte derékba - felesége, az álomszép Sharon Tate hippik áldozata lett - Polanski belevetette magát a hollywoodi drogos alvilág mélységeibe. Ezt addig folytatta, amíg a rendőrség letartóztatta kábítószer birtoklásáért és egy kiskorúval (13 éves lány) történő szexuális kapcsolatért egy partin. Mielőtt kimondták volna az ítéletet, a rendező Európába menekült.