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A Haunting in Venice
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- 2023
- Kenneth Branagh
- 103 mins
- 12A
Summary
Murder mystery directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh. Famed detective Hercule Poirot has retired from the sleuthing game and is now living a quiet life in Venice. At the insistence of an American writer friend, he attends a seance on Halloween, ostensibly to help unmask the attending medium as a fraud. But when a murder is then committed, Poirot questions whether supernatural elements have played a part in the fiendish crime.
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A star rating of 3 out of 5.
Patrick Cremona
Having previously adapted Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile,Kenneth Branagh turns to Agatha Christie's lesser-known 1969 novel Hallowe'en Party for his third outing as Hercule Poirot. This time, the extravagantly moustachioed Belgian sleuth is urged to attend a seance by novelist friend Ariadne Oliver (Tina Fey), and finds himself with another murder to solve. Transposing the action from the quaint English village of the novel to the more romantic setting of Venice makes this something of a loose adaptation - aside from the Halloween backdrop and the names of a few characters, the plot bears virtually no resemblance to that of the book. Branagh does conjure up a spooky atmosphere that sets this apart from his previous films, and he makes fine use of the moody Venetian locales. However, the mystery itself is rushed and convoluted, rendering this a middling rather than truly timeless Christie adaptation.
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rolenameHercule PoirotKenneth BranaghMaxime GerardKyle AllenOlga SeminoffCamille CottinDr Leslie FerrierJamie DornanAriadne OliverTina FeyLeopold FerrierJude HillNicholas HollandAli KhanDesdemona HollandEmma LairdRowena DrakeKelly ReillyJoyce ReynoldsMichelle YeohAlessandro LongoAmir El-Masry
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rolenameDirectorKenneth Branagh
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Theatrical distributor
Disney
Released on
2023-09-15
Languages
English | Latin | Italian | French
Guidance
Violence
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Colour
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