The Good Old Stuff

The fussy particulars of every stray image, every slightly off-center accent or line reading, make Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer a gloriously fun visually-enthralling puzzlebox, even if the storyline seems a bit thinner, a bit more dependent upon a too-easy associative political anxiety. (And a bit too invested in a shrill misogyny that seems both allusively and reductively Hitchcockian.)

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