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List Price: $27.98Amazon.com's Price: $24.99 You Save: $2.99 (11%)Prices subject to change.
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381526523
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Manufacturer: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Release Date: January 27, 2009
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 14976
Studio: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
When Polanski’s defense attorney says midway through this film that he 'isn’t surprised Polanski left under the circumstances' surrounding this corrupted court case, one really begins to understand why the director has not returned to America in nearly 20 years. Wanted and Desired, Marina Zenovich’s documentary about Polanski’s 1977 arrest for rape of a minor set facts straight about a case that was blown to ridiculous proportions by a sensationalistic press and a judge who was far from judicious. Comprised of interviews with producers and friends Andrew Braunsberg, Daniel Melnick, Mia Farrow, and many others, the film obviously sympathizes with Polanski. But ample interviews with D.A. Roger Gunson and defense attorney, Douglas Dalton, lend factual credence to the film’s assertion that the director was not guilty as charged and further, shows how separate public image and the real person are. Wanted and Desired covers the tragic loss of his wife, Sharon Tate, only to preface the court case and Polanski’s departing the country as a result. Short clips from many of his fine films are interspersed to poignant effect between interview clips, to show how his public image has been wrongly writ based on his films’ dark subject matter. Polanski’s lack of participation in the film, then, seems not like his condemnation of its making, but rather in keeping with his desire to avoid press in general. At best, Wanted and Desired may serve as a further invitation to the brilliant director, who has been living in France for almost 20 years with a wife and two children, to someday return to America. —Trinie Dalton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - FREE ROMAN POLANSKI
I saw the entire preview of this film and it is superbly done. It is shocking that after all these years Polanski has not had the charges dismissed. This man has been let down by our criminal justice twice. In 1969 and again in 1978. There can only be praise for Samantha Geimer, the girl Polanski had illegal sex with in 1977. It takes a big person to look at the facts and forgive and forget. Our justice system has shown more respect to Charles Manson, Susan Atkins, & Tex Watson and the other ... Read More
Rating: - You mean this WASN'T another hack-job on Roman?
When I first heard about this documentary, I was weary of it. I automatically thought it would be yet another American hack-job on Roman and I wasn't even swayed by the positive reviews it got.
But, boy, did I have to eat my words! Marina Zenovich presented a very balanced picture of the events of 1977 that actually (whoa!) wound up being sympathetic towards Roman and the fact that he was indeed a victim of the sick, sorry joke that's known as the American justice system.
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Rating:  - Persuasive arguments
This is a crisp, well-structured documentary which brings together most of the principal facts and figures in Polanski's 1977-1978 unlawful sexual intercourse trial.
Two are missing from the scene -- Polanski himself and Judge Laurence Rittenband, who presided over the case -- and they're the most important and, among followers of the situation, the most divisive.
The filmmakers have a clear respect for Polanski the artist, but they make two points painfully clear: That, in ... Read More
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