Celebrated and controversial filmmaker, Roman Polanski, was arrested in Switzerland last night. He was taken into custody, after arriving in anticipation of receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Zurich Film Festival scheduled for Sunday, September 27 2009.
U.S. authorities have sought the arrest of the 76-year-old director since 2005 for a 1978 U.S. warrant which was issued after Polanski pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl. Before sentencing in 1978 Polanski fled to France.
Polanski has tried to have his case thrown out in recent months, but a U.S. judge formally rejected his request in May 2009. The U.S. now needs to make a formal extradition request, according to Switzerland authorities.
Roman Polanski is the director of two American Classics: Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Chinatown (1974). And he received a directing Oscar in absentia for the 2002 movie The Pianist.
What do I think? Well... I think that even though Polanski is a brilliant filmmmaker, I loved each of those movies mentioned above, he should be extradited to USA and face the music, so to speak. It doesn't matter if his victim, 31 years later, wants all charges dropped. That's the bottom line. It's time to "pay the piper."
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