'The Ghost Writer': Roman Polanski, At The Height Of His Powers : NPR

'Ghost Writer': Polanski At The Height Of His Powers

by Kenneth Turan

February 19, 2010

Listen to the Story

Morning Edition

[2 min 35 sec]

• Add to Playlist
• Download
• Transcript

Enlarge Summit Entertainment

In The Ghost Writer, Ewan McGregor plays an unnamed author charged with writing a memoir about the former U.K. prime minister. Catrall plays the premier's seductive mistress.

Summit Entertainment

In The Ghost Writer, Ewan McGregor plays an unnamed author charged with writing a memoir about the former U.K. prime minister. Catrall plays the premier's seductive mistress.

The Ghost Writer

• Director: Roman Polanski
• Genre: Thriller
• Running Time: 138 minutes

Rated PG-13: some violence, brief nudity/sexuality, and language

With: Pierce Brosnan, Ewan Mcgregor, Kim Cattrall

'The Interview Begins'

• Add to Playlist

'I'm Your Ghost'

• Add to Playlist

text sizeAAA

February 19, 2010

Roman Polanski's new film, the deliciously unsettling The Ghost Writer, is a dark pearl of a movie, made with the flair and precision of a director suddenly restored to the height of his powers.