![]() ![]() ![]() Was it Aristides’ young American second wife, Brenda (Christina Hendricks), a former Vegas showgirl? Or was it one of the adult sons or their wives - failed actress Magda (Gillian Anderson, divinely campy), and chemist and toxicology expert Clemency (Amanda Abbington)?Īs Charles conducts his investigation, drawn further and further into this battle of wills over the actual will, he’s aided by the precocious Josephine, scribbling in a notebook, imagining him as Watson to her Holmes. ![]() “Crooked House” is a bit like a game of “Clue,” as the Leonides estate is filled to the brim with prime suspects. Irons slips easily into the role of Charles Hayward, a private detective engaged by former flame Sophia de Haviland Leonides (Stefanie Martini) to quietly look into the death of her grandfather, a Greek catering magnate, Aristides Leonides, as she suspects foul play. The French director teams with writers Julian Fellowes and Tim Rose Price, as well as cinematographer Sebastian Winterø, for this gorgeous adaptation trafficking in the delightfully wicked dirty laundry of the landed gentry. Agatha Christie is having a moment, which is a very good thing when the filmed adaptations are as juicy and twisty as Gilles Paquet-Brenner’s “Crooked House,” starring Max Irons, tangling with a matriarchy of man-eaters in postwar Britain. ![]()
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