A film by Roman Polanski. With Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall, Olivia Williams, James Belushi, Timothy Hutton, Eli Wallach, Tom Wilkinson,
"Tony Blair? I suspected that I should not say to imitate, but interpret it. But Roman said to me once: you forget Blair, Adam Lang and six did not think the former British prime minister in my character, this is rather a vision of the power of Shakespearean dramatic and intricate. " (Pierce Brosnan)
The protagonist, a writer capable and well-played by Ewan McGregor, sensed from the beginning that the work that is going to accept is not a simple task such as those to which it is accustomed. Already an expert ghost writer, perhaps beginning to address seriously think that the biography of the still-powerful former British Prime Minister just put in prose answers to his interviews. But there is one not just to shake his work, his predecessor died, of course before completing the book. " we will never know whether it was really an accident? " No small question, especially when our hero finds himself after a few hours to land on an island in the United States into a bunker from his powerful client. Adam Lang, a perfect icon of the power of today, always smiling for the cameras, cynical and ruthless political choices, the island has moved its operational base, with secretaries, wife and bodyguards, all seasoned British insistent rain . "Adam Lang is a new news", despite himself, and sweeps away all those around him.
The rain and leaden skies are in contrast with the descent of a McGregor lost in the labyrinths of power, together the other protagonists of the story that seem to suffer the damaging effects of pounding rain, a persistent wind that upsets not only the hairstyles. Roman Polanski, still under house arrest in Switzerland, for his notes and unedifying judicial affairs, he built a spy thriller in many ways classic in its staging, but at the same time able to bind to the present. A classic that is reflected primarily in a plot that, rather than focus on a needlessly tangled plot (let's say that very soon you can imagine almost anything, even if the information is carefully measured, relies on the ability of images to create a Polansky ' atmosphere full of pathos. Same discourse for the interpretation of the actors guided by the essential and to concerns. In particular, Ewan McGregor is able to provide the full picture of a person over almost any event into a bigger and stronger gear that will eventually overwhelm him.