This is a rather atmospheric production, the director has gone for moody shots to reflect a story where justice might have gone wrong as a young woman, Lucy Crale contacts Poirot to find out how her father, an artist dies 14 years earlier, a crime for which her mother was executed for and an incident which has always haunted her as she was a little girl at the time.
Lucy's father, Amyas was a womaniser, her mother, Caroline apparently put up with his philandering ways. His latest conquest was Elsa, a wealthy woman he was painting and who he had promised that he will leave his wife for.
The story is told in flashback as Poirot talks to various people who were present including family members, this leads to some unreliable narrators which Poirot has to fathom.
At one point a character tells Poirot to get on with it. An intriguing mystery but it does rather drag a bit which is always tends to be the case with feature length Poirot mysteries, hence the moody shots. Yet it did keep you guessing as to who is the culprit but I am not sure that it all hangs together well.
Lucy's father, Amyas was a womaniser, her mother, Caroline apparently put up with his philandering ways. His latest conquest was Elsa, a wealthy woman he was painting and who he had promised that he will leave his wife for.
The story is told in flashback as Poirot talks to various people who were present including family members, this leads to some unreliable narrators which Poirot has to fathom.
At one point a character tells Poirot to get on with it. An intriguing mystery but it does rather drag a bit which is always tends to be the case with feature length Poirot mysteries, hence the moody shots. Yet it did keep you guessing as to who is the culprit but I am not sure that it all hangs together well.