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He made Catherine Deneuve writhe in paranoid agony in the 1965 chiller Repulsion. He filmed Satan raping an unwitting Mia Farrow in Rosemary’s Baby. And as a blade-wielding punk, he sliced open the nostril of a nosy Jack Nicholson in Chinatown. But now, at age 72, Roman Polanski has stepped way outside his range to make something truly shocking: a family picture.

Reassembling the key crew from his 2002 Holocaust drama The Pianist (for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director), Polanski and his producers have plumbed the look of vintage Gustave Doré engravings to bestow an authentically grimy period feel on Oliver Twist, an independently financed mounting of Charles Dickens’ oft-adapted novel about a poor, orphaned lad making his way through the criminal underworld of mid-19th-century London. Why revisit such a well-worn narrative at a reported cost of $60 million? For Polanski, at least, there are two very goo