I'll have to disagree with LEMMYCAUTION, I found the proceedings fairly even handed. However, this doc was nowhere near as spellbinding as promised. Involving, yes, but I found that it lack any sense of propulsive forward motion. Worth the time, I suppose, but not a must see.
It looks like a fairytale for conservative people : the bad, pervert, foreign (is it really a country Poland ? I imagine their thoughts...), jewish, successful film director who has sex the poor white, blond, all-american, catholic girl ? It is a fairytale for people who want to express their conservative and moral views on society, a piece of cake for them.
And it looks like american people are so interested in that case and people who talk about it, the journalists, the judge, people who make documentaries about it. What's their point ? Is it bad to have sex with a minor girl ? Yes. Did he recognize it ? He has been punished for that and nobody should talk about it anymore, thinking how this could hurt the people who were exposed at this trial.
I don't really like this kind of documentary films, they take extracts from "Rosemary's Baby" to illustrate that Polanski could be a pervert and, in fact, they don't explain his personality and even less (if possible) his films : they use his films to still talk about the same old subject. The only positive thing I found in it is that it explains what happened on his trial, but that's all and that's little...
