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Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures

  • TV Movie
  • 2004
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
237
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Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures (2004)
Drama

Late in 1926 acclaimed mystery writer Agatha Christie disappears after marital problems and creates a media frenzy.Late in 1926 acclaimed mystery writer Agatha Christie disappears after marital problems and creates a media frenzy.Late in 1926 acclaimed mystery writer Agatha Christie disappears after marital problems and creates a media frenzy.

  • Director
    • Richard Curson Smith
  • Writer
    • Richard Curson Smith
  • Stars
    • Olivia Williams
    • Anna Massey
    • Raymond Coulthard
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.5/10
    237
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Richard Curson Smith
    • Writer
      • Richard Curson Smith
    • Stars
      • Olivia Williams
      • Anna Massey
      • Raymond Coulthard
    • 5User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
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    Olivia Williams
    Olivia Williams
    • Agatha Christie
    Anna Massey
    Anna Massey
    • Older Agatha
    Raymond Coulthard
    Raymond Coulthard
    • Archie Christie
    Stephen Boxer
    Stephen Boxer
    • Psychiatrist
    Anthony O'Donnell
    Anthony O'Donnell
    • Kenward…
    Mark Gatiss
    Mark Gatiss
    • Kenyon
    Richard Leaf
    Richard Leaf
    • Gunman
    Bonnie Wright
    Bonnie Wright
    • Young Agatha
    Celia Montague
    • Agatha's Mother
    Vicki Pepperdine
    Vicki Pepperdine
    • Carlo Fisher
    Bertie Carvel
    Bertie Carvel
    • Max Mallowan
    Rosa Curson Smith
    • Rosalind
    Olivia Darnley
    Olivia Darnley
    • Nurse
    Edmund Kingsley
    Edmund Kingsley
    • Soldier
    Tim McMullan
    Tim McMullan
    • Pharmacist
    James Tucker
    • Reggie
    Laura Maclaine
    • Maid
    Gregory Finnegan
    Gregory Finnegan
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    • Director
      • Richard Curson Smith
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      • Richard Curson Smith
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    • Quotes

      Archie Christie: Not everyone can be happy! Someone has to suffer!

      Agatha Christie: But why should it be me and not you?

    • Crazy credits
      There is a freeze-frame of each of the main characters, accompanied by a caption saying what happened to them after the events of the film. Then the caption disappears and there are a few seconds of motion-picture footage, then the frame freezes again and a caption gives the name of the actor.
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      Version of Agatha (1979)

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    The Matron Sleeps
    Many stories here. There's the story Agatha wishes for her romantic life, and where she gets her fuel for her writing career. There's the story she is presented with: two husbands, each a selfish adulterer and herself growing into a most unappealing person. There's the stories she writes for her commercial readers, highly successful. And there's the story she writes for herself of her life. That includes this bizarre episode of her "disappearance," investigated as a possible kidnapping or murder. In fact it was an elaborate story desperately begun with no end written.

    And then there's this story on the DVD, a confabulation of all these, the gimmick being that they are shuffled creatively. Its the sort of thing I love, that I live for as a consumer of stories.

    And its really hard to mess up because you get a lot of value out of simply making the attempt to flatten all these folds into one layer.

    But it is messed up here. Its virtually unwatchable. I don't think the reason is any of the usual candidates: the ordinary production values are good. The idea is inspired. I think it is something very simple and small, something that a film school assignment could address and fix. Its the tone of the thing. And how that tone is carried in the editing and to some extent in the score. Some small adjustments there and a few things shuffled about and this could have been a killer project.

    Oh well, there is one rather interesting thing if you are a film enthusiast. Anna Massey plays the elder Agatha. Its a strange choice because Anna is thin attractive and poised, here playing a bemused wisdom. The real person was dumpy, sour and dull, full of self-loathing. Anna was one of the redheads in "Peeping Tom," an influential entry in the history of folded narrative. She was also Babs in "Frenzy," whose death triggered one of Hitchcock's most famous shots, "goodbye Babs."

    Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.
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    • Apr 18, 2007

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    • Release date
      • September 22, 2004 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • アガサ・クリスティー/謎の失踪 失われた記憶
    • Production company
      • Wall to Wall Television
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      1 hour 30 minutes
    • Color
      • Color

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