Agatha y la maldición de Ishtar

Título original: Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar

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2019
1h 35min

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Lyndsey Marshal in Agatha y la maldición de Ishtar (2019)

Mientras participa en una excavación arqueológica en Irak, la escritora Agatha Christie descubre una serie de asesinatos acaecidos en el país.Mientras participa en una excavación arqueológica en Irak, la escritora Agatha Christie descubre una serie de asesinatos acaecidos en el país.Mientras participa en una excavación arqueológica en Irak, la escritora Agatha Christie descubre una serie de asesinatos acaecidos en el país.

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- 1 nominación en total

Curiosidades
In her autobiography, Agatha Christie writes of her friend Katharine Woolley as being a fascinating character who was extremely demanding and rude, yet charming and well-spoken. Katharine was the inspiration for the murder victim Louise Leidner in Murder in Mesopotamia (1936).

Pifias
In the first scene with Agatha and some guests on a dinner table one of the male guests is smoking a filter cigarette. Although, the cigarette filter was invented in 1925, filter cigarettes were not introduced into the market until 1936. As the movie in located in 1928 there is no way filter cigarettes would have been available.

Citas
Max Mallowan: Do I know you?
Agatha Christie: No, we've never met.
Max Mallowan: I'm sure we have.
Agatha Christie: Well, sometimes people think they've met me. It's an unfortunate consequence of being a bit famous.
Max Mallowan: [impressed] You're famous? Let me guess... You're the wife of a well-known politician?
Agatha Christie: [unimpressed] No. I'm not famous by marriage.
Max Mallowan: You're a well-known home-economist. Like Mrs. Beeton?
Agatha Christie: No, I'm not famous for my practical housekeeping.
Max Mallowan: I've got it. You're an actress!
[Agatha laughs]
Max Mallowan: . Retired of course...
Agatha Christie: [offended] My name is Agatha Christie. I'm a writer.
Max Mallowan: No, sorry. Never heard of you.

Créditos adicionales
Disclaimer in end credits: "This film has not been endorsed, licensed or authorised by the estate of Agatha Christie or by Agatha Christie Limited."

Conexiones
Followed by Agatha y los asesinatos de medianoche (2020)

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7/10

The good balances the bad

Lyndsey Marshal has a history with Agatha Christie adaptations and I believe she was a good fit for the character of Agatha in this film. However the character itself was a bit too bland. Also the story was showing random people getting killed without telling us anything about them. Agatha's lack of emoting combined with the overall care free reaction to murder of just about everybody made the film feel implausible.

Now, the acting was decent for all, without it being stellar in any way, but it was really difficult to empathize with any of the characters or feel for the history or culture of Iraq. And to top it all off, they added the artificial character of Pearl, whose only reason for existence seemed to be being an educated and attractive Black young woman who had a few scenes to complain about not being taken seriously, then proceed to be irrelevant to the story.

Bottom line: the storytelling felt amateurish and failed to compel me in any way. Too bad, because the acting was good.