Ewan McGregor

Pierce Brosnan

Kim Cattrall

Olivia Williams

Tom Wilkinson

Timothy Hutton

Jon Bernthal

Tim Preece

Robert Pugh

David Rintoul

Eli Wallach

Jim Belushi

Anna Botting

Yvonne Tomlinson

Milton Welsh

Alister Mazzotti

Tim Faraday

Kate Copeland

Soogi Kang

Lee Hong Thay

John Keogh

Hans-Peter Sussner

Stuart Austen

Marianne Graffam

Morgane Polanski

Andy Gütig

Robert Wallhöfer

Glenn Conroy

Robert Seeliger

Clayton Nemrow

Julia Kratz

Nyasha Hatendi

Daphne Alexander

Angelique Fernandez

Anne Wittman

Michael S. Ruscheinsky

Mo Asumang

Sylke Ferber

Desirée Erasmus

Errol Shaker

Errol Trotman-Harewood

Talin Lopez

Joel Kirby

Regine Hentschel

Jeff Burrell

Daniel Sutton

Eben Young

Jaymes Butler

Roman Polanski

Robert Harris

Timothy Burrill

Christoph Fisser

Henning Molfenter

Carl Woebcken

Elisa Costa

Kyra Panchenko

Nicolas Becker

Jean-Marie Blondel

Sandy Buchanan

Robert Benmussa

Alain Sarde

Alexandre Desplat

Paweł Edelman

Hervé de Luze

Fiona Weir

Albrecht Konrad

Cornelia Ott

David Scheunemann

Steve Summersgill

Bernhard Henrich

Ulli Isfort

Dinah Collin

Daniel Champagnon

Roxy Konrad

Katia Boutin

Thomas Desjonquères

Roland Tropp

Volkhart Buff

Marion Weise

Suzana Peric

Sylvette Baudrot

Anna Zenowicz

Sandy Notarianni

Didier Lavergne

Jean-Max Guérin

Ralph Remstedt

Jennifer Patrick

Thriller

Mystery

The Ghost Writer

R.P. Productions

France 2 Cinéma

Runteam

CVT Productions

Studio Babelsberg

Media Plus

Elfte Babelsberg Film

Belgium

France

Germany

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United States of America

Such an eerie and haunting movie… I expected just another political thriller, but this is so much more interesting…

The remote setting, the media storm… the layered motivations of the characters, sexual, financial, political etc…

It was also great to see cinematography that wasn’t just close ups of talking heads, which is the norm for these kinds of movies…

I also liked the parallels to the real world, the Blair-esque prime minister, the Middle Eastern wars and such, but also that it really is it’s own movie and is more concerned with painting a certain world than with commenting on current events…

CinemaSerf

It's quite difficult to watch this in the UK and not draw parallels with a certain real former Prime Minister - especially given the way "Lang" is rather chummily played by Pierce Brosnan. He is trying to have his memoirs written, and after an accident robs him of the incumbent, his team alight on a man who shows no interest in or has any knowledge of politics. This nameless character (Ewan McGregor) is given strict instruction about the manuscript, whom he can talk to or about it to and his subject and wife "Ruth" (Olivia Williams) seems approachable enough. His investigations, though, start to arouse a few suspicions - especially when he begins to feel like he is being watched, followed and manipulated. "Lang" is soon publicly caught up in some war crime investigations and his ghost writer starts to wonder just how far his boss went to foster and facilitate the relationship between his country and the USA - where they are now living and working. Add to this internecine play, his secretive secretary "Amelia" (Kim Catrall) and a rather enigmatic contribute from "Emmett" (Tom Wilkinson) and we have the makings of an intricately woven political thriller in which, for a chance, McGregor does well. He does rabbit in the headlights well as his character becomes embroiled in matters well beyond his depth. Roman Polanski keeps the film well paced with the chilly scenario and remote locations playing well to a sense of menace and duplicity. It's a bit sluggish out of the blocks, but once in gear it works well.

English

Pierce & Ewan on "The Ghost Writer", Roman Polanski

Ewan McGregor as 'The Ghost Writer'

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