Besieged the couple Lang is at loggerheads

Ever the saying "the reality goes beyond fiction" is has been also appropriate. At the outset of the adventure of "ghost writer", a 15 years ago, the British novelist Robert Harris, subscribed to the lists of best-sellers ("Fatherland", "Enigma", "Pompeii"), wanted to write the story of a reporter hired by a politician to write his memoirs. One of the themes that interested him was the attraction that Negroes have proven for the wife of the politician. Meanwhile, Tony Blair was elected Prime Minister and Harris, who was close prior to his election, is entered in the circle of power, with access to first hand information which journalists were excluded. In 2006, the novelist hear radio an opponent of the British intervention in Iraq that Blair should be prosecuted for war crimes, adding that the only way to escape would be exiled to the United States. "I had a spark," says Harris "and I said that I wished that my main character". The novel, released in 2007, is called "The man of the shadows". Polanski won on the field.

Former British Prime Minister therefore, Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan) is exiled on an island off the coast of the United States following an action launched against him by the tribunal in the Hague. He saw under high voltage with his wife Ruth (Olivia Williams) a ultramodern Villa better guarded than Fort Knox. Activists from time to time out of the property, calling for his head. Some are quite violent. Ruth and Adam have known each other since their years of youth; they met on the campus of Oxford and form since a couple, even if Ruth, tempered character, seems ready to explode at any moment. His morale is the image of the sky leaded rainy clouds that are permanently on the island where the couple fled: lower.

Oxford, nest of spies

"The nigger" (Ewan McGregor) is the second of the name, the first being mysteriously gone overboard during a ferry crossing to the Mainland. Nigger 2 will quickly understand that it is stuffed in a dirty Bee-eater. Instead of the stubborn kind, he would like to understand what could happen to nigger 1. As confirmed by an old sailor from the corner (Eli Wallach, "The ugly" of Sergio Leone), currents could not bring his body back to the beach where it was found. Finally, nigger 2 discovers an old photo dating from Oxford hidden in the villa by Negro 1. Oxford, nest of spies...

Like John's square

The fabric of the scenario is quite conventional, flirting with the themes of the masters and the puppet, dear to John's square, to which Robert Harris is often compared. The genius of Roman Polanski's have composed on this canvas a Symphony of colours, sounds, lights if subtle than the set of actors, perfectly suited to this case, as is magnified. The mood in the villa design materials and sophisticated enlightenment whose walls are decorated with contemporary paintings of the best taste is low-key, burdensome. Besieged, the couple Lang is at loggerheads. Adam is Gale, always between two helicopters, two phone calls and a meeting of jogging, alternately charming, fleeing or threatening. Ruth is stressed, alternating moments of seduction and aggression. Buffeted in murky water in old policy sharks, nigger 2 tries to not finish as nigger 1. This is not earned...