Upper Tweed Cinema at Skirling
The February film The Ghost Writer, will be at Skirling Hall, doors open at 7:30pm with the main film at 8:15pm. Guests are welcome to pay on the door.
A ghostwriter (Ewan McGregor) hired to complete the memoirs of a former prime minister (Pierce Brosnan) uncovers secrets that put his own life in jeopardy. The deliciously unsettling The Ghost Writer is a dark pearl of a movie whose great flair and precision make it Polanski's best work in quite a while. The Ghost Writer is an intelligent thriller wrapped around contemporary politics mixed with Polanski's perennial blanket cynicism about the helplessness of individuals against the entrenched strength of the powerful. His effortless blending of personal preoccupations with audience preferences recalls, as so much of this film does, the classic work of Alfred Hitchcock
