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Review: A Haunting in Venice

Murder most spooky.

Reason

A Haunting of Venice: a Gothic horror, supernatural, Agatha Christie murder mystery which all becomes quite camp

Agatha Christie regularly drew upon the supernatural to generate a feeling of uncertainty. We – the audience, and the ensemble of characters – are given limited information regarding a murder.

The Conversation

Venice won't be listed as one of the world's most endangered sites

UNESCO, the United Nations body that designates and protects World Heritage sites, says it will continue to monitor the famed Italian city's issues, including climate change and over-tourism.

WEKU

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Spooky-looking figures in gondola spotted in London canals ahead of A Haunting In Venice film release

Passers-by in London were given a frightening surprise as a ghoulish gondola passed through Camden Lock, Regent’s Park Canal and Little Venice manned by mysterious figures draped in black and donning traditional Venetian masks.

Evening Standard

The major holiday hotspots cracking down on overtourism

From tourist taxes to caps, here are the holiday hotspots taking measures to bring down escalating visitor numbers

The Independent UK

Venice faces possible UNESCO downgrade as it struggles to manage mass tourism

The Italian city of Venice has been struggling to manage an onslaught of tourists in the budget travel era

The Independent UK

A Haunting in Venice is Kenneth Branagh's 20th film – what do we make of his prodigious output?

In an essay on Kenneth Branagh, screenwriter Scott Frank recalls meeting the future star and director of his screenplay Dead Again (1991) and wondering “why the guy would want to direct a loopy, film noir thriller like mine?”

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A day in Venice is surely worth more than €5

Letters: Responsible tourism | Ferrets and moles | Cpl Punishment | Liz Truss’s achievements

The Guardian - UK

Movie Review: Kenneth Branagh crafts a sumptuously spooky ‘A Haunting in Venice’

Kenneth Branagh indulges in the kind of macabre theatricality that only a crumbling Venetian palazzo on a stormy Halloween night can provide in “A Haunting in Venice," which co-stars Tina Fey, Kelly Reilly, Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Dornan, Jude Hill and Camille Cottin

The Independent UK

Venice may be put on the endangered list, thanks to human-created climate change

The impacts of climate change including related disasters, such as wildfires and sea level rise, are increasingly raising a question about how best to save cultural heritage.

WEKU

Venice Film Festival’s big winners: from Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things to Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border

We look at the hits and misses of La Serenissima’s film festival this year

Evening Standard

Venice set to finally introduce tourist entry fees after years of wrangling

Decision due just weeks after Unesco warned of irreversible damage to popular Italian city

The Independent UK

Venice to introduce €5 fee for day-trip tourists in bid to combat numbers

Those visiting iconic city for the day would be required to pay surcharge

Evening Standard

Venice awaits Unesco heritage ruling as beds for tourists outnumber residents for first time

‘We feel like foreigners in our own home’ says activist as city’s population dwarfed by visitors

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The Independent UK

Venice Film Festival round-up: From Yorgos Lanthimos standout Poor Things to Michael Mann’s operatic Ferrari

Festivalgoers will surely agree that the 2023 competition was one of the most eclectic and eccentric in recent memory, writes Geoffrey Macnab

The Guardian - UK

A Haunting in Venice review – Branagh’s Agatha Christie whodunnit given horror makeover

No amount of spooky jump-scares can save Kenneth Branagh’s latest Christie adaptation, which wastes its atmospheric setting and stellar cast

The Independent UK

A Haunting in Venice review: Poirot meets the supernatural in Kenneth Branagh’s third middle-of-the-road chiller

Michelle Yeoh comfortably steals the show in this starry adaptation of lesser-known mystery ‘Hallowe’en Party’

Evening Standard

A Haunting in Venice review: Kenneth Branagh’s Poirot at Halloween fails to haunt

Yes it’s his best Poirot yet, no that’s not saying THAT much

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Inverse

2023's Most Satisfying Thriller Still Manages to Surprise

Kenneth Branagh and his mustache are back in the latest adaptation of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot mysteries. Read our review of 'A Haunting in Venice.'

The Guardian - UK

Venice film festival 2023 week two roundup – Priscilla, Bernstein, refugees and hitmen

Emma Stone goes wild in a zany Victorian fantasy, Woody Allen gets one of the biggest laughs of the week, Carey Mulligan turns in a career-best performance – and the Golden Lion should go to Agnieszka Holland’s searing Green Border

The Guardian - UK

Woody Allen: cheered on stage despite fog of accusation that won’t lift

Given rapturous applause at Venice, Allen has – like it or not – become an icon for post-#MeToo confusion around allegations and burdens of proof

The Times of India

James Prichard: A Haunting in Venice is probably Kenneth Branagh's best performance as Hercule Poirot yet - EXCLUSIVE

Kenneth Branagh returns to screens this Friday as the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, his third instalment and most 'thrilling' take on the Agatha Christie novels. As fans of the franchise get ready to hop onboard a Gondola and sail to a haunted palazzo with an ensemble cast including Michelle…

Evening Standard

Green Border review: refugee drama should be required viewing for all

This astounding film, which gives a voice to the voiceless, would make a worthy winner of the festival’s top prize

The Guardian - UK

Ava DuVernay: Black film-makers are told people don’t care about our stories

Academy Award winning director was speaking at Venice film festival, where she is the first African American woman to compete in its 91 year history

The Independent UK

Kanye West and ‘wife’ Bianca Censori banned from Venice boat company after ‘obscenities’ on board

West was photographed with his bottom exposed on board the vessel with his ‘wife’

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