WARNING: Graphic content The darkness pervading Roman Polanski’s films could never match the horror and scandal of his life, which has left him admired as a genius by some and reviled as a child abuser and international fugitive by others. The 90-year-old Franco-Polish director was back at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday with The Palace, a farce set in a Swiss hotel on New Year’s Eve. Polanski’s life has often seemed dangerously in step with the most extreme highs and lows of the past century. He has been a victim of horrific crimes – losing a mother to the...