Feb 16
Roman Polanski flick draws raves at Berlin
While Roman Polanski awaits his fate in Switzerland, the drum roll is sounding in Berlin.
His new movie The Ghost Writer is playing to rave reviews, with critics hailing the offering as his best in years.
The movie, about a politician wanted in the US for extradition to another country, has a resonant theme in the director’s own life. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian writes: “This is his most purely enjoyable picture for years. A Hitchcockian nightmare with a persistent, stomach-turning sense of disquiet, brought off with confidence and dash.”
The Ghost Writer’s stars Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor have been spruiking the film at the highly prestigious international film festival.
Switzerland, the BBC reports, is this week saying it will reserve a decision on whether to extradite the fugitive director back to the US until after a Los Angeles appeals court has ruled on the matter. So far, an LA judge ordered Polanski back in the US to face the 32-year-old charges of sex with a minor but Polanski’s lawyers upped the ante with an appeal.
“As long as the question is still open, our decision depends on that,” the Swiss justice ministry’s deputy director, Rudolf Wyss, said.
Polanski’s The Ghost Writer, meanwhile, is being feted as firmly in the running for a Berlin film jury prize.
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