Vet movie maker Roman Polanski succeeded the Silver Bear as best director at the Berlin movie Festival Sat as his new to political thriller The ghostwriter, the jury announced.
Polanski missed away on the global premier by his image at the Berlinale, the 1st major internationalist film case by the yr, due to his home arrest in Schweiz as having sex on a 13-year-ancient girl in 1977.
The award was acceptable by his producer, Robert Benmussa.
‘I am surely Roman will be really pleased,’ he said.
‘But, when I was lamenting with him that he can’t be on us, he said to me, ‘Even whenever I coulded time I attended an festival to get a appreciate, I finished up in jail.’
Benmussa was referring to the director’s arrest in Sept on a US warrant as he went to Schweiz to accept an award.
An seven-member jury led by Germanic director Werner Herzog (Fitzcarraldo) and including Oscar-winning actress Renee Zellweger crowned Polanski among the directors of twenty global contenders.
Critics showered The ghost with praise, calling them a come back to form for the French-Polish film-maker, best known for classics such as Rosemary’s Baby and Chinatown.
‘Mr Polanski is a maestro of pest,’ New York Times critic Manohla Dargis said in a aglow followup on Fri for the cinema America release.
‘He makes a completely believable world rich in weird contradictions and ominous implications. He’s delivering the pulpy fun at such a high-ranking that The ghost are resistless, no matter at once obvious the twists.’
The picture, based on Robert Harris’ bestseller The Ghost, features a stand-out performance by Pierce Brosnan as a former British prime minister modelled on Tony Blair being probed for war crimes over the torture of terror suspects.
He hires a ghostwriter (Ewan McGregor) to shape up his memoirs but the hired engrave soon stumbles upon a deadly web of transatlantic political intrigue.