In A Haunting in Venice, Kenneth Branagh continues cinema’s long tradition of adapting Christie through the lens of horror.
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My PhD considered Branagh’s self-fashioning through Shakespeare, little anticipating the disparate output that was to come.
Agatha Christie never explicitly said so, but many of her Belgian detective’s character traits could be interpreted as being autistic.
Branagh’s adaptations are more concerned with Poirot himself than any of the suspects – the murder in this film only happens 70 minutes in.
