

A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident.
Direction
Polanski frames isolation like a trap closing slowly.
Cinematography
Bleak Martha's Vineyard never looked more threatening.
Writing
Every line of dialogue has two meanings. Minimum.

Director
Roman Polanski
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Polanski completed editing while under house arrest in Switzerland; the film's themes of entrapment and surveillance took on accidental autobiographical weight.
Adam Lang is transparently Tony Blair, and the film dropped months after Blair's 2010 memoir release—Polanski essentially made a revenge fantasy for everyone who bought 'A Journey' and felt conned.