Includes filmography (p. 98-100).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 100-101).

Playing with knives : Knife in the water, Repulsion -- The dark fantastic : Dance of the vampires, Rosemary's baby, The ninth gate -- Polanskiesque : Cul-de-sac, What?, The tenant, Pirates, Bitter moon -- Raymond Chandler's nightmare : Chinatown, Frantic -- Classical Polanski : Macbeth, Tess, Oliver Twist -- Polanskian politics : Death and the maiden, The pianist, The ghost writer -- The perfect film : Carnage.

Roman Polanski (born in 1933) is a French - Polish film director, producer, writer and actor, who stands as one of the most influential directors living today. A truly international filmmaker, Polanski has received numerous awards, including the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and five Oscar nominations. Polanski has tackled many genres, including the horror film (Rosemary's Baby, 1968), film noir (Chinatown, 1974), historical drama (Tess, 1979), and, more recently, the war film The Pianist (2002), about the Holocaust, and the thriller The Ghost Writer (2010). Polanski has also directed some of the most talented actresses of our time, including Catherine Deneuve, Mia Farrow and Kate Winslet. Polanski's films are dominated by a sense of claustrophobia and deal with the existential themes of loneliness, fear and uneasiness.