Agatha Christie : Poirot - Season 12 (2010) (saison)
Réalisation:
Philip MartinScénario:
Stewart HarcourtPhotographie:
Alan AlmondActeurs·trices:
David Suchet, Eileen Atkins, Hugh Bonneville, Jessica Chastain, Marie-Josée Croze, Serge Hazanavicius, Stanley Weber, Barbara Hershey, Toby Jones (plus)VOD (1)
Résumés(1)
Hercule Poirot is visiting Istanbul, having solved a complex case for the British Army, when he witnesses an act of brutal justice on the streets. Relieved when a new case calls him back to London, Poirot's old acquaintance Xavier Bouc, who is director of the Orient Express, secures him a last minute ticket. Among the eclectic range of passengers are Princess Dragomiroff and her nervous maid Hildegarde Schmidt, English governess Mary Debenham and Swedish missionary Greta Ohlsson. During the journey Poirot is approached by ruthless American businessman Samuel Ratchett who offers him ten thousand dollars to watch his back, but Poirot refuses. Could Ratchett be fearful of the Italian Antonio Foscarelli, English Colonel John Arbuthnot, pushy American Mrs Hubbard or Hungarian diplomat Count Andrenyi and his wife? Poirot awakes the following morning to find the train stuck in a snowdrift and Ratchett dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times. (iTunes)
(plus)Critiques (3)
An almost brilliant adaptation of the novel, plus a wonderful update of a slightly hackneyed series. Poirot brought ethically ad absurdum, from "whodunit" detective novels to an astringent and at first unbearably intense drama about justice. If it weren't for a few hideous digital mashes, it would be a masterful structure undershot by Suchet's dark side of power and a rather unconventional instance of God, who this time will triumph over the power of the detective's rationality. Never before has Poirot been so vulnerable to what he investigates - and he has never been so consistently helpless and defeated. Philip Martin did a brilliant job and for me he made the most special and distinguished Poirot, which, personally completely got me with its rawness, darkness and breaking of the solid framework of the traditional detective story.
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Poirot can be seen here as a broken man. A MAN. His grey brain cells still work, but that unshakable faith of his with which he judges all criminals has been shattered, which is why this treatment is the best of all for me, not to mention that it surpasses even the book. Very successful, not to mention a perfect plot and an excellent climax. And of course great performances, because without them it would have been half-hearted. Even though I know Murder on the Orient Express like the back of my hand, I watched it slowly with the feeling that I had absolutely no idea what was going to happen – I just genuinely enjoyed it.
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This story totally got me, not only because of Agatha's excellent foundation, but also because of the execution. An immensely dark story, where Suchet reserves himself and mostly maintains only one acting position, which adds to the depression. Overall, the environment is beautifully captured and adds to the overall impression of the story, which is definitely non-traditional and powerful.
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