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Un meurtre est-il si facile ?

Original title: Murder Is Easy
  • TV Series
  • 2023
  • 1h 57m
IMDb RATING
5.8/10
4.2K
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2,017
Penelope Wilton and David Jonsson in Un meurtre est-il si facile ? (2023)
Follows Luke Fitzwilliam, as he finds himself on the trail of a serial killer after meeting Miss Pinkerton on a train to London. Now Fitzwilliam has to find the killer before any more blood will be shed.
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Follows Luke Fitzwilliam, as he finds himself on the trail of a serial killer after meeting Miss Pinkerton on a train to London. Now Fitzwilliam has to find the killer before any more blood ... Read allFollows Luke Fitzwilliam, as he finds himself on the trail of a serial killer after meeting Miss Pinkerton on a train to London. Now Fitzwilliam has to find the killer before any more blood will be shed.Follows Luke Fitzwilliam, as he finds himself on the trail of a serial killer after meeting Miss Pinkerton on a train to London. Now Fitzwilliam has to find the killer before any more blood will be shed.

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    • David Jonsson
    • Mathew Baynton
    • Nimra Bucha
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    5.8/10
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    • Stars
      • David Jonsson
      • Mathew Baynton
      • Nimra Bucha
    • 85User reviews
    • 8Critic reviews
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      • 1 nomination total

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    David Jonsson
    David Jonsson
    • Luke Fitzwilliam
    • 2023
    Mathew Baynton
    Mathew Baynton
    • Dr. Thomas
    • 2023
    Nimra Bucha
    Nimra Bucha
    • Mrs. Humbleby
    • 2023
    Morfydd Clark
    Morfydd Clark
    • Bridget Conway
    • 2023
    Penelope Wilton
    Penelope Wilton
    • Miss Pinkerton
    • 2023
    Phoebe Licorish
    • Rose Humbleby
    • 2023
    Douglas Henshall
    Douglas Henshall
    • Major Horton
    • 2023
    Kathryn Howden
    Kathryn Howden
    • Mrs. Carter
    • 2023
    Mark Bonnar
    Mark Bonnar
    • Reverend Humbleby
    • 2023
    Kevin Mains
    Kevin Mains
    • Constable Reed
    • 2023
    Sinead Matthews
    Sinead Matthews
    • Honoria Wayneflete
    • 2023
    Tamzin Outhwaite
    Tamzin Outhwaite
    • Mrs. Pierce
    • 2023
    Jon Pointing
    Jon Pointing
    • Rivers
    • 2023
    Holly Howden Gilchrist
    • Amy Gibbs
    • 2023
    Tom Riley
    Tom Riley
    • Lord Whitfield
    • 2023
    Joe Fagan
    • Butler
    • 2023
    Demmy Ladipo
    • Jimmy Amaike
    • 2023
    Gloria Obianyo
    Gloria Obianyo
    • Ngozi Ude
    • 2023
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    5djalexblanco

    Ignore the people moaning about black leads in period drama

    Putting a new spin on an old story is nothing new, and occasionally produces real gems, so ignore the people who were always going to hate anything that places brown faces in roles they grew up seeing white ones on TV. Despite the racism of the past, there were a good number of notably successful black and Asian people in Britain and the US (going back a couple of hundred years) - they just weren't in the films and TV shows the people complaining watched as children, and they weren't taught about in schools.

    All that said, there are many more legitimate reasons to swerve this adaptation. It just lacked any real sense of jeopardy or tension. The pacing was off. Many of the characters came across as caricatures. There were too many ideas and unfinished / unexplored red herrings and other dramatic devices. All in all, it just felt like it was executed by people who don't love or understand the genre. Worth dozing on the sofa to one Sunday afternoon, but not much more than that, I'm afraid.
    7Sleepin_Dragon

    A solid, fresh adaptation.

    Whilst travelling to London on a train, Luke William encounters pensioner Lavinia Pinkerton, who explains that a killer is at large in her village of Wychwood, only the locals believe the deaths are all accidents, if nobody thinks it's murder, murder is Easy.

    After the likes of And then there were none, ABC Murders and Witness for The Prosecution, Christie at Christmas is back.

    Well publicised, I'd been looking forward to it, I don't think it's a brilliant adaptation, but it's a good one, it's a great story, one of my favourite Agatha Christie page turners, definitely one of these more bloodthirsty texts, there are plenty of murders.

    The main talking point seems to be the casting of David Jonsson, several people seemed to be upset by the change, for me, he was the best thing about this production, he's excellent throughout.

    Sinead Matthews, Tom Riley, Douglas Henshall, lots of talent to enjoy.

    Very nicely produced, it looks great, those scenes of London looked amazing, some wonderful costumes.

    Dear BBC, can we please have more next Christmas?

    7/10.
    4paul2001sw-1

    Anemic

    Agatha Christie wrote many dozens of murder mysteries, some famously ingenious; but either 'Murder is Easy' was a dud, or this adapatation is badly screwed up. People start dying in a small English village, but everyone still alive is remarkably unperturbed and several seem not to care if they're suspected to be the killer. Eventually, the real culprit is unearthed, and explains exactly how they've done it, although our amateur detective hero has identified the villain without in fact piecing any of it together for themselves. I've seen Christie adaptations that were fun, preposterous, or anachronistic; but none as anemic as this.
    6CTap96

    David Jonsson

    My husband and I are impressed with David Jonsson, whom we are watching for the first time. His character is classy, like old school acting we haven't seen in a while.

    I am no more a fan of revising classic works than the next Marple fan. I've seen "4:50 to Paddington," with Joan Hickson, more times than I can count. When it was remade some years later, there were some tweaks to the story, but I enjoyed that version too, especially with Highclere as the filming location. As far as other retellings after Joan Hickson's time, I felt some were good and some not.

    They never did "Murder is Easy," with Joan Hickson. In my opinion, Benedict Cumberbatch made the version he was in, as he assisted Miss Marple ("not a Miss Pinkerton" - no offense to the wonderful Penelope Wilton) because, frankly, the subject was particularly distasteful.

    I am reviewing this before I see the second part of this new "Murder is Easy" because I already know my opinion of what makes watching this version worth at least one viewing: the lovely filming locations, Penelope Wilton, Douglas Henshall, Mark Bonnar, Matthew Baynton, and the old-style charm of David Jonsson, which is why I'm being generous with my rating.

    I doubt the BBC cares what fans of British mysteries think of their revisions. There have been some pretty awful re-re-re-retellings of classic titles this past decade, to be sure. The best we can do is not watch what isn't good - but then we can't always know it isn't good until we watch. And maybe that's why the BBC keeps the bad revisions coming? No, they'll do what they want anyway.
    4Njs2016

    Messy BBC confusion.

    Agatha Christie has a chequered history with Tv and Film adaptations, from early Poirot characterisations that made him French, yes French. Margaret Rutherford was a fun but hardly faithful to the source Miss Marple. The recent ITV adaptations of Marple have played fast a loose with the narratives and even changed murderers at points. So, it's true to say that adapting Christie can be fraught with difficulty when it appears 'easy'.

    This adaptation was a mess on many levels. From a sub Wes Anderson approach to texture and editing rhythm, strange close ups, wobbly camera work and a script that clanked along pouring exposition on top of the imposition of a post-colonial narrative - it just didn't mesh.

    The ideas were bold, and in many ways could have been brilliant, just so many choices at once going away from the source material began to stress the story so much that it became vague and confused, an original piece about colonial attitudes in the 20th Century or a straight down the line thriller would have been much more effective and a much stronger choice from the BBC.

    The problem with BBC commissions at the moment is their lack of vision to make original drama, they appear to want to be commercial whilst trying to service what is current and hotly debated. This leaves the BBC feeling confused and only concerned with issues that trend in London and liberal media outlets.

    ITV have delivered Christie stronger, better and more radically than the BBC over the last two decades. So perhaps it would be nice to see this 'tradition' of a bbc Christie at Christmas knocked on the head, until they begin to understand how to produce drama that doesn't betray the source.

    This was just a real dud.

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      Luke Obiako Fitzwilliam's character is based on the 1939 book's Luke Fitzwilliam -- a role that has been played by Bill Bixby in the 1982 TV movie, Peter Capaldi in the 1993 London stage version, and Benedict Cumberbatch in the 2009 TV version alongside an additional amateur detective, Julia McKenzie's Miss Marple.
    • Goofs
      When the lead character is pushing through the group to get to the character killed in the street, the lady in the orange hat gets hit twice in the head with his umbrella, firstly from behind then to the front which you can clearly see her flinch.
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      Version of Un meurtre est-il facile? (1982)

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      • August 26, 2024 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
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      • Agatha Christie Productions
      • Mammoth Screen
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      • 1h 57m(117 min)
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