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Absent Polanski a boost for Berlin
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February 10, 2010, Wednesday
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ROMAN Polanski may be under house arrest in a Swiss chalet, but the Polish-French director is set to dominate this year's Berlin film festival where his latest movie "The Ghost Writer" will be unveiled.
Interest in the 76-year-old's film, one of 20 competition entries vying for awards at the February 11-21 event, has inevitably soared since his sensational arrest in Switzerland in September.
Polanski, the Oscar-winning maker of classics such as "Chinatown" and "Rosemary's Baby," is now fighting extradition to the United States to face sentencing over a 1977 case of unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl.
Festival director Dieter Kosslick, hoping for a classic edition of the annual cinema showcase to mark its 60th year, has confirmed that the Oscar winner will not attend the red carpet world premiere on Friday, as is the norm at such events.
Neither is he likely to appear in a video message from the confines of his holiday home in Gstaad.
Yet, despite Polanski's absence, "The Ghost Writer" is expected to attract more attention than any of the hundreds of movies being screened in and out of competition in Berlin this year.
Polanski reportedly put the finishing touches to the thriller based on a Robert Harris novel while in prison, and the fictional former British prime minister played by Pierce Brosnan is widely understood to be loosely based on Tony Blair.
Ewan McGregor is the ghost writer of the title brought in to pen the ex-premier's memoirs, but when he stumbles across a global conspiracy involving his employer he must race to uncover the truth.
Also screening will be Martin Scorsese's Cold War era "Shutter Island," starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
Interest in the 76-year-old's film, one of 20 competition entries vying for awards at the February 11-21 event, has inevitably soared since his sensational arrest in Switzerland in September.
Polanski, the Oscar-winning maker of classics such as "Chinatown" and "Rosemary's Baby," is now fighting extradition to the United States to face sentencing over a 1977 case of unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl.
Festival director Dieter Kosslick, hoping for a classic edition of the annual cinema showcase to mark its 60th year, has confirmed that the Oscar winner will not attend the red carpet world premiere on Friday, as is the norm at such events.
Neither is he likely to appear in a video message from the confines of his holiday home in Gstaad.
Yet, despite Polanski's absence, "The Ghost Writer" is expected to attract more attention than any of the hundreds of movies being screened in and out of competition in Berlin this year.
Polanski reportedly put the finishing touches to the thriller based on a Robert Harris novel while in prison, and the fictional former British prime minister played by Pierce Brosnan is widely understood to be loosely based on Tony Blair.
Ewan McGregor is the ghost writer of the title brought in to pen the ex-premier's memoirs, but when he stumbles across a global conspiracy involving his employer he must race to uncover the truth.
Also screening will be Martin Scorsese's Cold War era "Shutter Island," starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
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