: And Then There Were None revisited
A mix of whodunit, horror, humour and social commitment, a movie worth watching – 3/5 stars
As the different protagonists, introduced in the film incipit, arrive in an apparent seaside holiday paradise and are taken to a solitary spectacular beach with no connection to the resort, we immediately feel we are in a classical A. Christie’s situation, and that something is very wrong. And if you are familiar with And The There were None (Dieci Piccoli indiani), you know what might happen next in the plot development: a fight for survival and …. In the movie, time has been terrifyingly accelerated, as if the character lived their life in just one day. It is a brilliant feature which makes the film unconventional and boosts suspense. Will the characters be able to survive, will they escape their golden trap? The finale will answer the questions we ask ourselves during the film, showing a finger-pointing social commitment about a topic (drugs and its globalized production) we have all been familiar with since the rise of Covid 19.
Follow-up:
The Guardian: Old review – M Night Shyamalan’s fast-ageing beach horror