Kenneth Branagh’s Christie adaptations feel like the work of a committed but distrusting filmmaker, so nervous about boring a modern audience that he drives his own movie to visual distraction.
Tina Fey as Ariadne Oliver, Michelle Yeoh as Mrs. Reynolds, and Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot in"A Haunting in Venice."
I don’t love these movies, and that makes me sad. I’ve enjoyed Christie’s books, the Hercule Poirot mysteries and otherwise, since I was 13. But Branagh’s film versions too often feel like the work of a committed but distrusting filmmaker, so nervous about boring a modern audience with clue-planting and exposition-ladling that he drives his own movie to visual distraction.This one’s less digitally janked up, at least, and the acting’s pretty crafty.
As did five other Christie whodunits, this one features both Poirot and the authorial stand-in, mystery writer and amateur sleuth Ariadne Oliver. In “A Haunting in Venice,” Oliver cajoles her old Belgian friend, now retired, out of his preferred isolation. The script Americanizes Oliver, while costume designer Sammy Sheldon classes her up with some terrific hats, worn by Tina Fey.
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