At the third film by Agatha Christie’s novels, screenwriter Michael Green along with director and actor Kenneth Branagh, decide that it is time to get away from the novels. After demonstrating loyalty to Christie’s heirs, they felt that they had earned the right to give vent to their creativity. Assassinio in Venice the film on Rai 4 Tuesday 30 December.
Branagh and Green partially took inspiration from the novel Hallowe’en Party – The massacre of innocents, seizing the partially supernatural atmosphere of history, the world of orphans and children, taking back some elements but transporting history from the London countryside to Venice.
Assassinio a Venezia, la trama
Hercule Poirot is in Venice in 1947, recruited in a palace without desire to deal with cases, with a bodyguard that prevents anyone from approaching him. At least until I knock Ariadne Oliver a long-time friend writer from the investigator.
The woman convinces him to investigate the supernatural and spiritualism, participating in a spiritual session in a decadent and spectral house, which in the night of All Saints became Halloween after liberation, children celebrate among ghosts and scary tales. In that house dozens of orphans left to die by doctors and nurses and decided to avenge. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective finds himself investigating.
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Assassinio a Venezia la recensione
Assassinio in Venice is a film in the style of the yellows of Agatha Christie (the restricted spaces, the few suspects, the closed rooms), with Hercule Poirot, but without being drawn from a novel by Christie. Adaptations are another thing. Branagh is now convinced of his Poirot and wants to tell his version of Poirot to make him a character at the same time autonomous and tied to the world of Christie.
The film takes a more thriller, almost horror, than the most classic yellow, thus trying to bring different colors in this universe Christie signed Branagh. The style of the film is the same as the previous films, built for visual paintings that seem untied and necessary only to show the location, in this case the splendid canals of Venice. Frammentata is the story, developed as a tribute to crime films of the past in which fluidity had not yet been imagined and every scene had to instill doubts. There is nothing that can lead the viewer to solve the case and Poirot’s intuitions come suddenly apparently brought by the current.
Assassinio in Venice is a good entertainment product for lovers of yellow but also thrillers, in the wake of the previous ones. It leans on a cast of known faces that, as in previous films, all recite a tone above, devoid of naturalness, uploading every scene and every expression. A style that may or may not be a pleasure and honors the films of the past and in which Tina Fey is perfectly located, whose character should give a “comic” connotation to the whole story. Riccardo Scamarcio is the Italian fetish necessary for history, in a Venice that immediately after the war of the film appears more an American than European city. Kenneth Branagh has become everything and everything Poirot.
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Il cast
Kenneth Branagh: Hercule Poirot
Kelly Reilly: Rowena Drake
Michelle Yeoh: Joyce Reynolds
Jamie Dornan: padre di Leopold Ferrier
Emma Laird: Desdemona Holland
Tina Fey: Ariadne Oliver
Kyle Allen: Maxime Gerard
Camille Cottin: Olga Seminoff
Riccardo Scamarcio: Vitale Portfoglio
Jude Hill: Leopold Ferrier
Ali Khan: Nicholas Holland
In streaming
The movie is streamed on Disney+ and is for rent and or buy on Apple TV, Amazon Video, Rakuten TV, Timvision.
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