Roman Polanski, after having a hard childhood and suffering one of the most traumatic events of his life in 1969, when his wife Sharon Tate was brutally murdered, begins the 70s where would continue to demonstrate its great cinematographic potential, although his first films in this decade were not his best works.
After a great polish filmmaker's 6th decadeIn 1971 premieres his British film "Macbeth". Despite being one of the best adaptations of Shakespeare's famous play, it was the director's first box office failure. The film won the Bafta for best costume design in 1973.
Roman Polanski's idea of creating a 3D movie called "The Magic Finger" ended up leading in 1973 into his next film "What?", An Italian comedy, one of the most expendable of the filmmaker's filmography.
In 1974 he returned to his best cinema with the film "Chinatown", with which he won the Golden Globe for best director and for the first time he opted for the Oscar in this same category. The film was nominated for eleven Hollywood Academy Awards and won Best Original Screenplay.
The director returns to France for the filming of his 1976 film "The Chimerical Tenant", a psychological thriller considered cult movie over time. This film was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival that same year.
After spending 40 days in jail on six charges, including sexual abuse of the minor Samantha Geimer, and being conditionally released on January 28, 1978, at the beginning of February of that same year he left the United States to avoid serving his sentence. and he settled back in Paris. Director he will never set foot on American soil again and his filmography there will be summarized in two films, "The Devil's Seed" from 1968 and "Chinatown" from 1974.
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