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A post from DoubleX blogger Lauren Bans:
Marina Zenovich’s documentary on the 1977 Roman Polanski rape case (Roman Polanski: Wanted & Desired) is about to become an oft-cited source in the contentious debate about Polanski’s 32-years-removed arrest
that went down in Switzerland over the weekend. In it, Zenovich makes
the fair argument that the judge overseeing the Polanski case was
biased from the get-go—he’s depicted as a celebrity-obsessed,
press-provoking joke of a judge whose No.1 concern was his own image.
This portrait probably has some truth to it; there was eventually a
successful motion to remove him from the case and even the victim has
said that the ensuing media shitstorm ruined her adolescense.
But the rest of the documentary is a gross overwrought defense of
Polanski ... (Read more in DoubleX.)