Agatha

I had never heard of the movie or of Agatha Christie's disappearance. Interesting film with several well known stars all delivering outstanding performances.

Beautiful to look at and thoughtfully executed. Vanessa Redgrave and Dustin Hoffman are both marvelous. A too-little-seen gem.

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The movie has a general air of knowingness, and some of the incidental dialogue is clever, though it doesn't seem to have a story-with its lulling tempo and languid elegance, it seems to be from a musing. The talent of the director, Michael Apted, is for the tactile, the plangent, the indefinite; when the action dawdles, he lets the cinematographer, Vittorio Storaro, take over ... Yet there's a gentle pull to it, and Redgrave endows Agatha Christie with the oddness of genius.