Auteur goes under the lens

By Stephanie Bunbury
February 8 2013 - 3:00am
Director Roman Polanski during filming of his 'tell-all' memoirs, which some critics say leave many questions unanswered.
Director Roman Polanski during filming of his 'tell-all' memoirs, which some critics say leave many questions unanswered.

FEW figures in the film world are as intriguing as Roman Polanski, the indisputably great artist whose tumultuous life behind the scenes has become better known than any of his films. That he had ''unlawful sex'' with a 13-year-old girl in 1977, that he fled a prison sentence in the US to live in Europe, that he was confined under house arrest in Switzerland in 2009 while the local court considered a fresh demand from US authorities for his extradition - this has become Polanski's central melodrama.

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