"Roman Polanski: A Life in Exile" is a revealing look at this acclaimed filmmaker whose life in exile seems to have made his films all the more personal and powerful.

Written by a film critic, this insightful book follows Polanski's story from his childhood in a World War II Jewish ghetto to his early films in Poland; from his American breakout, "Rosemary's Baby," to his wife's murder by the Manson family; from the spectacular return of "Chinatown," to his exile as a convicted sex criminal, to the monumental career peak, "The Pianist." The Holocaust, the oppression of communism, the...