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Friday September 15, 2023
A Haunting in Venice
I thought Brannagh had gone completely off-piste with a new Poirot story, but I then read that this is an adaptation of The Halloween Party. A fairly loose adaptation one has to say, "the names stay the same but the characters differ" - all I suspect mostly in aid of transferring the action from a boring English Country House setting to a much more exotic location in Venice. And as to "who dunnit"? Well, without spoilers I would say that any sleuths among you would ask a fundamental question: not so much "who benefits?", as who - assuming you do not believe in the paranormal - is the only person who could have arranged all this?
Interestingly, even though G's interest in Christie and Poirot is limited (though sufficient to tolerate accompanying me to see the film), his first comment was: "I may not know much about the characters but I cannot believe that Ariadne Oliver would ever have played such a mean trick on Poirot" - again, no spoiler there I think, but I firmly agree. True, Brannagh has changed Ariadne into a ruthless American hack - but even so....
Posted by Christina at 3:11 PM. Category: Art and Culture
