Mon petit doigt m'a dit... (2005)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Pascal Thomas

Writers:

François Caviglioli (writer)
Agatha Christie (novel)

Release Date:

13 April 2005 (France)

Genre:

Comedy | Mystery

Plot:

Prudence and Belisaire are what can be called an eccentric couple. How can you bear such impossible Christian (?) names in the first place...

Plot Keywords:

Ironing | Fireplace | Graveyard | Foreign Language Adaptation | Death

Cast

Catherine Frot	...	Prudence Beresford
André Dussollier	...	Colonel Bélisaire Beresford
Geneviève Bujold	...	Rose Evangelista
Laurent Terzieff	...	Maître Anet / Monsieur Sévigné
Valérie Kaprisky	...	Françoise Blayes
Bernard Verley	...	Le général
Alexandra Stewart	...	Mme Boscovan
Sarah Biasini	...	Marie-Christine
François Bettens	...	Rudi (Marie-Christine's husband)
Françoise Seigner	...	Tante Ada Beresford
Elisabeth Macocco	...	Mme Pacard
Isabelle Giani	...	Melle Aupic
Hervé Pierre	...	Docteur Mauroy
Alexandre Pesle	...	L'enseigne-vaisseau Boulanger
André Thorent	...	Le curé

Also Known As:

By the Pricking of My Thumbs (Australia) (TV title)

Runtime:

France:105 min

Country:

France

Language:

French | English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Argentina:13 | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | France:U

Filming Locations:

Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, France

Company:

Ah! Victoria! Films

Trivia:

The song sung by Prudence and Belisaire is an aria ("Je crois entendre encore") from the opera by Georges Bizet, "Les pêcheurs de perles" (1863). It is heard again in the sequel "Le crime est notre affaire" but with no plot importance.

Quotes:

Le curé: I also happen to say things I don't understand.
Prudence Beresford: Nothing alarming in your case: you're a priest.

Movie Connections:

Followed by Le crime est notre affaire (2008)

Sedate, dull and unsuspenseful (but pretty to look at)

How is it possible to make a dull film from an Agatha Christie novel? Try this method: keep the mystery vague and the answers poorly explained, REMOVE any sense of SUSPENSE or URGENCY, and add that insufferable talkiness that plagues many French pictures. Voila! This is probably the most boring, sedate Agatha Christie adaptation I've seen so far. Of course, I was not expecting another "Death On The Nile" or "Evil Under The Sun" (especially when in the place of Hercule Poirot you have two middle-aged amateur sleuths), but I was not expecting to be totally indifferent to the outcome of a story coming from the Queen of murder mysteries either! The only good points of this film are the beautiful, vividly photographed French country locations and the fairly engaging performances of Catherine Frot and André Dussollier. (*)