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...film recounts the details of the night Polanski brought 13-year-old Samantha Gailey to Jack Nicholson's house for a magazine photo shoot and allegedly gave her champagne and quaaludes before having sex with her. Gailey, now Samantha Geimer, tells the story from her point of view in the film, saying she's not angry with Polanski. Polanski, now 74, declined to participate in Zenovich's movie. "He felt it would look like self-promotion," Zenovich says. "He said I don't want to seem like a prima donna. I want to help you but it's just...
...Whether Polanski will do publicity for the film in France and other countries that don't have extradition treaties with the U.S. is uncertain, says Zenovich. But Harvey Weinstein, whose company purchased the foreign rights to the film, was overheard breathlessly speculating on that possibility in the balcony of another Sundance screening Saturday night. (HBO purchased the domestic rights...
Many of the interviews in the film, with neighbors and friends like Mia Farrow, paint a picture of Polanski at his peak, when he was one of Hollywood's hottest directors, fresh off the critical and commercial hit Rosemary's Baby and married to the beautiful actress Sharon Tate. "At a certain point in his life, Roman Polanski had a lot of hope," says Zenovich. "He was living this great life. He was so talented and everyone wanted to work with him. He had survived the Holocaust, soared out of Poland on sheer personality. I wanted to put his life...
That hopeful period ended when Tate, eight months pregnant, was murdered by followers of Charles Manson in 1969. Polanski spent the first years after her death on a kind of sexual spree, and began spending time with younger and younger women, like 15-year-old Nastassja Kinski...
...When Polanski was arrested for assaulting Gailey, his case drew the attention of Judge Rittenband, who had also presided over Elvis Presley's divorce, Marlon Brando's child-custody battle and a paternity suit against Cary Grant. Rittenband, in a manner reminiscent of the one-liner-dropping judge in the Anna Nicole Smith case, liked the spotlight. He even had a bailiff maintain a scrapbook of his newspaper clippings...