Sarah Polley recalls Baron Munchausen

When she was just eight years old, Sarah Polley starred in Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (a film I thoroughly adore).

In a fascinating and poignant article for the Toronto Star, the now 26-year-old relates how traumatic her experience on that production actually was, sharing her recent correspondence with Gilliam wherein she finally confronts him about it, seventeen years later - prompted by the news that Gilliam's new film, Tideland, is to star a 10-year-old girl.

The resulting exchange is not at all what you might expect.