This is the director’s third Agatha Christie adaptation, and he is in full gothic mode, with another star-studded cast.
gets a little more serious about Hercule Poirot than Agatha Christie ever did. Played for the third time by Kenneth Branagh, he is in a reclusive mood when we first meet him. Thoroughly depressed by World War II and its aftermath, he has lapsed into uneventful anonymity in Venice, where he tends his garden, indulges in Italian pastries and ignores the hordes still clamouring to engage his services as a sleuth.
The list of suspects is as promising as is usual in a Christie mystery. Hosting the seance is the palazzo’s glamorous owner, Rowena Drake , a retired opera singer who is still grieving the mysterious death of her daughter Alicia, and desperate to have Joyce conjure up her voice from the afterlife. Maxime Gerard is Alicia’s former fiance, who loathes Rowena, and Jamie Dornan is a shell-shocked doctor hopelessly in love with her. He is at the seance with his young son Leopold, a preternaturally wise child played by Jude Hill, Dornan’s co-star and Branagh’s juvenile alter ego in his autobiographical movieThis is the third Christie adaptation Branagh has directed from a script by Michael Green, and he’s in full gothic mode.
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