Apr 28th
The Ghost** (15)
aka: The Ghost Writer
Odeon Colchester

A biographer is hired to ghost write the memoirs of a former prime minister who has more secrets about his past than he is letting on.
Slow but intriguing mystery thriller which works better on the printed page than on film, based clearly (and unfairly) on Tony Blair - whose character hardly appears in the film - but capturing well the general paranoia of conspiracy and dissatisfaction for going to war in Iraq. Topical in its way.

w: Roman Polanski, Robert Harris, from his novel.
d: Roman Polanski.
s: Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Williams, Kim Cattrall, Timothy Hutton, Tom Wilkinson, Eli Wallach, James Belushi, Robert Pugh, David Rintoul