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A HAUNTING IN VENICE – Hildur Guðnadóttir
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
A Haunting in Venice is the third adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel by director Kenneth Branagh, after Murder on the Orient Express in 2017, and Death on the Nile in 2022. It’s also, by quite some significant margin, the worst. It’s very loosely based on Christie’s 1969 work Halloween Party and sees the Belgian master detective Hercule Poirot living in semi-retirement in Venice, when he is convinced to attend a Halloween party by his old friend novelist Ariadne Oliver; also at this party will be a supposed psychic medium, Joyce Reynolds, and Ariadne wants Poirot to help her unmask Reynolds as a fraud. However, as the night unfolds, Poirot gets drawn into a sinister plot involving murder, hidden family secrets, and a supposed curse of ghostly children haunting the palazzo where the séance takes place. The film stars Kenneth Branagh as Poirot, Tina Fey as Oliver, and Michelle Yeoh as Reynolds, plus Kelly Reilly, Jamie Dornan, Jude Hill, and Camille Cottin in supporting roles. Read more…
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