We have Sundance news about a documentary that investigates the famous Roman Polansky child sex case. We get the skinny from the professionals at Variety:
“Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,” the untold story of the scandal that caused the Polish –born director to flee America, sold Friday night to Weinstein Co. for all international rights. Deal, which excludes U.S., Canada and UK television, is understood to be for low six figures. Domestic rights to the film directed by Marina Zenovich are still in play.
Zenovich’s long-in-the-works reporting of the Polanski scandal, which reveals that justice may not have been served when Polanski was convicted of unlawful intercourse with a minor, will certainly generate media coverage. The director served 42 days in prison and then fled the U.S. to go into 30-year exile. Zenovich reopens the case, talks for the first time to Polanski attorney Douglas Dalton and many others.
This is certainly a story that I would like to see. Polansky gives a girl champagne and quaaludes at Jack Nicholson’s house; he flees the country and Jack gets no bother. I am not saying Polanski is innocent, but something does seem fishy about the story; I have to beg the question….why would a mother let her daughter go to Jack Nicholsons house? Everyone knows what goes on there …champagne, quaaludes and perversity!
I do not know enough about the story to have an opinion either way, but I do welcome an investigative documentary on the issue. Sex with a minor is always wrong and Polansky has to prove that he was lied to about the girl’s age and/or prove that they had no sexual encounter at all. If he knew how old the girl was, and had sex with her, consent or not – I have no sympathy for him.
This should be a good coffee talk documentary and I look forward to its release.
