A Haunting in Venice

 

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Dress: Forever New chiffon, gold buttons

Sneakers: Rollie via Milu faux fur, rubber

Bag: Pigeonhole leather

Bangle Stack: Alex & Ani gold, onyx

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A few quick snaps from a recent trip to the Gold Class movies to see the newest installment of Kenneth Branagh's Hercule Poirot films, "A Haunting in Venice," with my younger brother, another devoted Agatha Christie fan like myself. I kept it smart casual in a dark burgundy, pink & black floral chiffon mini dress with voluminous sleeves, ruffled hemline & little gold buttons down the bodice from my local Forever New boutique, a pair of the lightest, most comfortable shoes ever - pink faux fur sneakers with black eyes printed on them & rubber soles from cult label Rollie that I picked up a funky little store called Milu in Fortitude Valley a few years ago now, a black leather crossbody bag from Pigeonhole to carry all the essentials including the face mask & hand sanitizer (can't be too careful) & finally, a stack of gold & onyx bracelets & bangles with bohemian charms from Alex & Ani.

Scroll down to see more & for a little review of the film...

It's not that I didn't like "A Haunting in Venice" because I did... it's just that Branagh changes some of the most fundamental elements of Agatha Christie's Belgian detective & it just... well, grates on me slightly... which is odd because as well as David Suchet's incredibly faithful adaptation, I absolutely adore both Peter Ustinov's late 1970s/1980s version (which takes many, many liberties) as well as the completely & utterly unhinged French farce series "Criminal Games" (otherwise known as "Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie") in which a cranky detective called Swan Lawrence & a plucky young journalist called Alice April solve the now-famous whodunnits in 1950s France. But I digress. 

SPOILER ALERT! Without giving too much of the game away, I will say that I was not particularly happy with the individual involved in the "twist" of this tale because having read a great number of Christie's novels involving this particular contemporary of Poirot, I just don't believe that they would EVER act the way they did or hold such contempt for an individual they were more than happy to lay down their life to save in an earlier work. As for the rest of the film, I was in awe of the cinematography, setting, cast & costumes, as well as the way that all of these actually made the tale - one that is quite well known as "The Hallowe'en Party" (1969) - frightening & filled with unexpected jump scares. It was extremely atmospheric & although the killer remained the same, enough was changed to keep the viewer on their toes (so to speak) & needing to use their "little grey cells" to solve it before the Belgian maestro.