Presented in Poland, London, São Paulo, and at the Berlinale, it is now the turn of BOZAR to present an exhibition that illustrates the career of the great Polish film-maker through previously unseen photographs of the actor and director in full action, archive footage from collections held by his friends (Wajda, Kostenka, Gutowski and Nowak) and posters from the Lodz Film Museum.

Roman Polanski (b. Paris, 1933) has, over the course of a half century, become recognized as one of the great modern masters of the cinema. Many of his films are infused with a mysterious, difficult-to-define sense of dread, which is understandable given much of his early life experience. Polanski’s parents were sent to a concentration camp, where his mother died, and he lived as a fugitive Jewish teenager in Nazi-occupied Poland. His 1984 autobiography begins, “For as far back as I can remember, the line between fantasy and reality has been hopelessly blurred,” and his films use the fantastical elements of cinema to make sense of the extraordinary reality he has experienced.

Opening November 10 the exposition on Polanski, taking place in the context of ‘Poland in Focus’, will run until January 8 at the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussel.

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