Kenneth Branagh has directed and starred in three movies so far based on Agatha Christie’s murder mystery novels, but none of them have taken place primarily in England, the country where Christie lived and where she based so many of her stories.
For the first two movies, this wasn’t particularly unusual.
The source material for “Murder on the Orient Express” also had Poirot spend the book on a train ride from Istanbul, just as “Death on the Nile” was always a vacation mystery in Egypt.
It’s only with this third film, “A Haunting in Venice,” that we’re starting to wonder if Branagh has some vendetta against England.The book this new movie is based on is “The Hallowe’en Party,” one in which a teenage girl is unexpectedly murdered in Woodleigh Common, a small English village.
The book was written in 1969 and although it’s somewhat vague about the timeline, it…
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