He fears he will suffer the same fate as his predecessor. (One of the terrorists died.) While all this is going on, The Ghost uncovers, accidentally, evidence left by Ghost No. Helena.Ī bigger storm brews when Lang’s former foreign minister ( Robert Pugh) agitates in public for Lang to be tried in The Hague for colluding in the kidnapping of four Pakistani terrorists who were subsequently delivered to the CIA for torture. As Lang’s tart wife, Ruth (a first-rate Olivia Williams), puts it, it’s like being exiled with Napoleon in St. This luxury is no match for the drizzly grayness of the location. Lang is encamped in a luxurious, isolated house on the island while conducting a stateside lecture tour. The film may seem insubstantial while you’re watching it, but, in its own tingly, deadpan way, it has many of Polanski’s trademarks: a curdling, cruel humor an outsider hero who is also a patsy and a pervasive dread.Įwan McGregor plays a character – nameless in both the book and the movie and listed in the credits simply as “The Ghost” – who is hired to ghostwrite the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang ( Pierce Brosnan) after his previous collaborator is found mysteriously washed up on the shores of Martha’s Vineyard. Gracefully, inexorably, it goes from silly to scabrous. Roman Polanski’s deft political thriller “ The Ghost Writer,” based on the 2007 Robert Harris bestseller “The Ghost,” is equal parts comedy and black comedy.
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