Daily Plastic: Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

Movie	Our Take	Other Takes
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired Trailer . IMDB	The film leans a bit too heavily on the idea that Polanski was a high-living artist who was rejected by a puritanical America and embraced by an understanding Europe.... However, on balance, the film is a credible re-evaluation of a complex man. Robert Davis Paste Magazine	The documentary is an impressive work of archaeology, which reconstructs the life and career of a man who was smeared by the press and the courts.... Yet facts, as they say, are stubborn things. The Polanski case is still missing some crucial ones. David D'Arcy GreenCine Daily All of which is beside the point that it is illegal and morally outrageous to take a 13-year-old girl, whether she's a nun or a nymphomaniac, to a strange house, feed her Quaaludes and sodomize her. That, and not prudery or a predatory press, is why Polanski is "wanted" in America, and would be in Europe if the crime had occurred there. Ella Taylor Village Voice It's a fascinating movie in many ways.... But both times I watched the movie, I came away with the queasy sense that Zenovich was trying to excuse Polanski for his crime, playing up his tragic history and artistic achievements.... you might also want to read the transcription of the victim's testimony at TheSmokingGun.com. J.R. Jones Chicago Reader The most significant fact of the film is that the prosecutor Gunson, a straight-laced Mormon, agrees with the defender Dalton that justice was not served. Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times

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