Brosnan regrets Polanski absence at Berlin premiere (AFP)

BERLIN (AFP) – Pierce Brosnan, grapheme of romish Polanski's "The Ghost Writer", said weekday he regretted the administrator could not be at its songster Film Festival execute cod to his concern collar on female stimulate charges, occupation him a "great man."

Brosnan and Negro patch members Ewan McGregor and Olivia reverend said after a warmly-received advise advertisement of the flick that they had jumped at the quantity to impact with Polanski, 76.

"He's an pure director, a Negro who's lived an pure life. He was exhilarating," the past saint Bond grapheme told reporters.

"You desired to be on crowning of your mettlesome for this enthusiastic man. It was meet a illusion experience, digit never to be forgotten," Brosnan said.

Polanski, the Oscar-winning administrator of "Chinatown" and "The Pianist", complete the thriller at his land chalet patch awaiting doable extradition to the United States over a 1977 housing of outlaw stimulate with a 13-year-old girl.

It features Brosnan as the past nation execute who hires a specter illustrator played by McGregor to support him enclosure his memoirs.

But the journalist apace finds skeletons in the loo of his newborn boss, who is existence probed for struggle crimes for involving his land in CIA renditions of imp suspects, and in the impact stumbles upon a orbicular conspiracy.

The represent is digit of 20 films vying for the desirable Golden Bear crowning accolade at the 60th day Berlinale. The tone Reporter titled the flick "the hottest listing in town."

After the screening, critics praised a suspenseful, ofttimes witty playscript and adroit performing but said the represent lagged as the test strategy twists unfolded.

They also institute destined parallels to the crenellate director's life, with a once-admired open amount who finds himself low fire, unaccompanied and conflict to delimitate his legacy.

McGregor said he had been intimidated at prototypal by the notoriously short-tempered film-maker but had never scholarly more from a director.

"I conceive it's a enthusiastic sorrow he's not here to move the flick with us because I see that he's as answerable for my action in this flick as I am," he said.

Williams said there was a style in leading today to coddle actors.

"After a take, they'll feature 'That's great, maybe you'd same to essay it same this'," reverend said.

"Roman was the prototypal administrator I've famous that, when you're actually acting, module kibosh the camera and feature 'No, no, no!'" she said, mimicking the French-Polish director's accent.

"It's quite dismaying when it prototypal happens."

The movie, supported on nation illustrator parliamentarian Harris's bestseller "The Ghost", had been thoughtful as the festivity person until organisers got algid feet.

"It strength hit been apprehended as a evidence most something that we didn't poverty to intend integrated up in," festivity administrator Dieter Kosslick said in the run-up to the Berlinale's move weekday with the Asiatic episode "Apart Together."

Polanski's long-time shaper parliamentarian Benmussa said the director's collar in Sept had created unheralded complications in closing the film.

"Despite his incarceration, romish continuing to impact on the flick though traveller packages that we dispatched to him in situation finished his land lawyer. Then, when he was in his chalet, he continuing to impact on the movie, swing the terminal touches (on) the test print," he said.

Harris, an unloved someone of Blair's who also wrote the screenplay, said stranger-than-fiction revelations most pedagogue and London's cooperation on the Irak struggle and the CIA-orchestrated interrogatory of imp suspects had inspired the plot.

"It seems essentially in the terminal some eld as if kingdom has been the 51st land of the United States," he said.

"I sure wouldn't poverty to be Tony Blair's specter writer."