Low and mighty

Bio flick fails to address Roman Polanski’s sense of entitlement | Meghan Keane

The new documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired sets out to settle the score on director Roman Polanski's controversial 1977 rape trial. Polanski, a Polish survivor of the Holocaust, has lived a life as plagued by scandal and tragedy as distinguished by career accolades. While creating such lauded films as Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, and The Pianist, Polanski's life has been turned upside down by his mother's death at the hands of the Nazis, his wife's murder at the hands of the Manson family, and the consequences of his sexual appetites.

A filmmaker in Poland and England, Polanski moved to America in the late '60s, where he was embraced by Hollywood and quickly took to the freewheeling lifestyle. He married actress Sharon Tate in 1968, but she was murdered a year later while eight months pregnant.