Ghosts? Nah. Can’t be. For detective Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh), there must be a rational answer for everything—even for the strange things that happen at a seance, and the murder that follows, and the creepy little girl he’s seeing in an old house in Venice.
A Haunting in Venice, based on Hallowe’en Party, is the third Agatha Christie adaptation Branagh has directed and starred in, and like the others, it has an excellent cast—including Michelle Yeoh as the mysterious Mrs. Reynolds, and Tina Fey as the old friend who brings Poirot in on the case.
The movie, adapted by Michael Green (Logan, American Gods), also stars Kelly Reilly (Yellowstone), Jamie Dornan (the Fifty Shades series), and Camille Cottin (Killing Eve). Branagh’s mustache does not get its own credit.
The brief synopsis says only:
Set in eerie, post-World War II Venice on All Hallows’ Eve, A Haunting in Venice is a terrifying mystery featuring the return of the celebrated sleuth, Hercule Poirot. Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world’s most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.
Gotta love all that alliteration: Sinister! Shadows! and Secrets!
A Haunting in Venice is in theaters September 15th.
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