The Crooked House (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The crooked house |
| Original title | Crooked House |
| Country of production | United States , Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 116 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gilles Paquet burner |
| script |
Julian Fellowes , Tim Rose Price , Gilles Paquet-Brenner |
| production |
Joseph Abrams , James Spring , Sally Wood |
| music | Hugo de Chaire |
| camera | Sebastian Winterø |
| cut | Peter Christelis |
| occupation | |
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The Crooked House (Original title: Crooked House ) is a crime film and thriller by director Gilles Paquet-Brenner from 2017 , which is based on the novel by Agatha Christie . The film opened in German cinemas on November 29, 2018.
action
The young Charles Hayward runs a detective agency in 1957 . One day his receptionist announced a client for him - his former lover Sophia. She wants Charles to investigate the death of her extremely wealthy grandfather, Aristide Leonides. Instead of insulin, he was injected with the deadly eye drops.
Many of the residents of the spacious and multi-towered house offer themselves as perpetrators. Aristides young widow Brenda was attacked during his lifetime. His favorite son Roger hopes the inheritance will help him financially for his troubled family business . His wife Clemency hopes for freedom from the family clan. Philip Leonides was looking for a financier for the film adaptation of his script, in which his wife Magda would play the leading role. Lady Edith has felt set back since the death of her sister and Aristide's first wife. Head of House Brown is rightly said to have a love affair with Brenda.
Everything going on in the house is watched by Sophia's youngest sister Josephine. From her tree house she points a telescope at the window of the house and writes down her observations in her notebook . She feels superior to Charles and only calls him "Watson", he then calls her " Holmes ". Josephine is found unconscious beneath her tree house; its rope ladder has apparently been cut.
The police have now arrested Brenda and her lover as the murderers of Aristide. Charles is congratulated for his part in the investigation's success, but suspects the wrong people have been arrested.
Josephine's nanny is later found poisoned with potassium cyanide . Charles suspects Lady Edith when he finds the potassium cyanide used by Lady Edith to kill moles and Josephine's notebook in a vat of caustic in the garden shed.
Lady Edith had just learned that she had only a short time to live because of cancer. In a letter she left behind, she writes that she committed the murders. Lady Edith leaves the property with the girl Josephine in her sports car . Charles and Sophia follow her in Charles' car while Sophia reads from Josephine's notebook. They learn that Josephine (and not Lady Edith) killed her grandfather and later her nanny. Lady Edith notices the car chasing her and steers her Triumph TR3 first onto the site of a sand pit and then into an abyss, where it explodes.
reception
The film received positive reviews from the critics.
In its press release, the German film and media rating certifies the film to be a “wonderfully classic cat-and-mouse game” and praises the balance “between thriller suspense and the wonderfully exaggerated depiction of the blasé, bored English upper class in the post-war period ".
In the Stuttgarter Nachrichten , with a view to the lower budget compared to the recently published Christie film Murder on the Orient Express , "the limitation turns out to be an opportunity because here the focus is on the characters and the atmosphere". In addition, the strong cast and black humor are highlighted.
According to epd film, “the camera indulges in luxurious interiors and strokes the magnificent exterior facade” and the film is described as a “dignified chamber play”.
The Austrian courier mentions the "pleasant nostalgic look" and the Berliner Zeitung the "espritful pragmatic [e]" adaptation of the material and the "leisurely urgency" in the "investigation procedure".
Web links
- The crooked house in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for The Crooked House . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 181327 / K).
- ↑ The crooked house. In: FBW.de. German Film and Media Rating (FBW), April 11, 2019, accessed on January 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Kathrin Horster: The evil, hunchbacked relatives. In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten. November 28, 2018, accessed January 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Manfred Riepe: review of the crooked house. In: epd film. November 23, 2018, accessed January 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Gabriele Flossmann: Film review for "The crooked house": Murders in the Agatha Christie style. In: kurier.at. November 28, 2018, accessed January 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Gerhard Midding: Film "The Crooked House" So the Agatha Christie renaissance can also be fun. In: berliner-zeitung.de. November 29, 2018, accessed January 4, 2020 .