Crooked house plot7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Max Irons plays the detective, motivated by both personal and professional reasons to solve the mystery of the Leonides patriarch’s death. Not in the expected way, though, as it is later revealed. It deserves insisting on the issue, as the child, Josephine (impeccably played by Honor Kneafsey) is a central figure of the adaptation, seeming to be surrounded (and surround herself) of an aura of mystery and danger. ![]() Similarly to other Christie novels, the title is inspired from a nursery rhyme, suggesting the unnatural way in which the family members, including the youngest ones, have evolved. In this case, the screenwriter plays with the setting of the ostentatious mansion of the wealthy Leonides family and with the whims and mysteries of the latter. The gathering of numerous and surprising characters as suspects of murder in a confined area is, however, one of her landmarks. ![]() Signed by Julian Fellowes, this 2017 adaptation of Agatha Christie’s post-war novel, is obviously meant to attract and impress mainstream audiences: the cast gathers a countless number of celebrities (Glenn Close, Terence Stamp, Gillian Anderson or Max Irons, to mention just a few) and combines glamour and style with screenplay twists and surprises in Agatha Christie’s style, despite not bearing entirely her mark. ![]()
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