I really enjoyed Kenneth Branagh‘s 2nd Agatha Christie adaptation ➙ Death on the Nile (2022).

Belfast was excellent, as well.

So I was keen to see Haunting in Venice (2023), loosely based on Hallowe’en Party by Agatha Christie.

Though not as good as Nile, I do have a lot of respect for the 3rd film. It feels true to the Agatha Christie formula.

Film students should study the cinematography and audio.

Branagh portrays the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. An ego trip.

Tina Fey is Ariadne Oliver, Poirot’s friend and a crime novelist (something like Christie).

Having lost faith in God and humanity, Detective Hercule Poirot lives in retirement in post-war Venice, employing ex-police officer Vitale Portfoglio as a bodyguard.

On Halloween, novelist Ariadne Oliver convinces Poirot to attend a séance at the palazzo of opera singer Rowena Drake and help expose medium Joyce Reynolds as a fraud. …

Gathering the other guests together, Poirot exposes _______ as the murderer. …

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