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François Caviglioli (writer)
Agatha Christie (novel)
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Release Date:
13 April 2005 (France) more
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Prudence and Belisaire are what can be called an eccentric couple. How can you bear such impossible Christian (?) names in the first place... more | add synopsis
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Agatha made in France more (4 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| 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 |
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By the Pricking of My Thumbs (Australia) (TV title)
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France:105 min
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Argentina:13 | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | France:U
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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. more
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Bélisaire Beresford: She is so perfect that no one notices her other defects. more
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Version of Marple: By the Pricking of My Thumbs (2006) (TV) more
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This is - for all I know - only the second French adaptation of an Agatha Christie crime story in France. The last time was ... in 1932 ( "Le Coffret de Laque, directed by Jean Kemm)! But this new French effort was worth the waiting. Indeed, Lady Agatha's whodunit has been gallicised and updated so deftly that the viewer never suspects all the adaptation work behind the slick storytelling. When I say gallicised understand a stylized France. And when I say updated I mean a rather iconoclastic present.
All you can expect from an Agatha Christie novel you will find here : thrills, plot twists, mysterious clues, a surprising final resolution. But, thanks to Pascal Thomas' talent you will be given even more : social comment ( old age, family ties, the 2003 heat wave ), black humor (jokes about death, madness, etc.), brilliant dialog, plus a wonderful cast of either well-known character actors typed against cast (Geneviève Bujold, Valérie Kaprisky, Maurice Risch, Laurent Terzieff), of talented beginners(Pierre Lescure) or little known but excellent actors(André Thorent, Anne Le Ny). To say nothing of the sizzling leading couple of the always perfect Catherine Frot and André Dussollier.
However what is most enjoyable is the offbeat tone that imbues the whole film. The atmosphere, although apparently realistic, constantly borders on the fantastic.A farcical type of fantastic, as if "Mon petit Doigt m'a dit" had been made by a Claude Chabrol born in Belgium !