Roman Polanski: A Cinema of Invasion

To accompany our ROMAN: 10X Polanski film season, critics Cristina Álvarez López & Adrian Martin developed this visual essay. Polanski’s films develop a stunning, surprising logic, one to the next, as they smoothly, slyly navigate between inner, private worlds and outer, public history. He multiplies our possible interpretations of these worlds: is it all a disturbed character’s subjective fantasy, or does madness truly define our collective condition, waiting to burst out into the open, in all its frenzi