{"id":34478,"date":"2023-11-16T06:25:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T11:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34478"},"modified":"2023-11-16T06:38:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T11:38:50","slug":"a-haunting-in-venice-2023-directed-by-kenneth-branagh-starring-kenneth-branagh-michelle-yeoh-tina-fey-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34478","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Haunting in Venice&#8221; (2023) directed by Kenneth Branagh, starring Kenneth Branagh, Michelle Yeoh &#038;Tina Fey \/Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z111623zview_hauntingvenice.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"627\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>A Haunting in Venice <\/strong><\/em>(2023)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Kenneth Branagh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay by: <strong>Michael Green <\/strong>based on <em>Hallowe&#8217;en Party<\/em> by <strong>Agatha Christie<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring: <strong>Kenneth Branagh, Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Dornan<\/strong><strong>, Tina Fey, Riccardo Scamarcio<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 <em>Death is just the beginning.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Story:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The year is 1947.\u00a0 The world famous detective Hercule Poirot (Branagh) is retired and living in Venice.\u00a0 Because of Poirot&#8217;s fame, people from all over the world attempt to hire him.\u00a0 Poirot turns down every offer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Poirot&#8217;s old friend, mystery author Ariadne Oliver (Fey) visits, she tells Poirot about psychic Joyce Reynolds (Yeoh).\u00a0 Poirot scoffs.\u00a0 All psychics are frauds.\u00a0 Ariadne agrees, but says that she couldn&#8217;t figure out how Joyce Reynolds pulls off her readings.\u00a0 Ariadne says that if the smartest person she knows (herself) can&#8217;t figure it out, perhaps the second smartest (Poirot) can.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ariande invites Poirot to attend a Halloween s\u00e9ance.\u00a0 It will be held in a building that was once an orphanage.\u00a0 It is now said to be haunted by orphans who were locked in and left to die during a plague.\u00a0 Joyce Reynolds will lead the s\u00e9ance.\u00a0 Poirot agrees to come along.\u00a0 Ariande figures Poirot will either expose Reynolds as a fraud or not.\u00a0 Either way she will have a story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Everyone invited arrives for the s\u00e9ance. Reynolds while channeling a spirit says that one of the people in attendance is a murderer!\u00a0 In short order, Joyce Reynolds is found impaled on a statue.\u00a0 Periot locks everyone in. One of them is the killer.<\/p>\n<p>Hercule Poirot is out of retirement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kenneth Branagh filmed on location in Venice.\u00a0 He also didn&#8217;t tell the actors in advance about things like doors slamming, lights suddenly going out, etc.\u00a0 He wanted to get their actual responses to startling events.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was Tina Fey&#8217;s first appearance in a feature film or television production that wasn&#8217;t a comedy.\u00a0 She was excellent as Ariadne Oliver.<\/p>\n<p>This is Kenneth Branagh&#8217;s third outing as Hercule Poiroit.\u00a0 He starred and directed <em>Murder on the Orient<\/em> <em>Express<\/em> (2017), <em>Death on the Nile<\/em> (2022) as well as <em>A Haunting in Venice<\/em> (2023).\u00a0 I hope he does more.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z111623zview_hauntingvenice2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"265\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Haunting in Venice (2023) Director: Kenneth Branagh Screenplay by: Michael Green based on Hallowe&#8217;en Party by Agatha Christie Starring:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34478"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34494,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34478\/revisions\/34494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}