Talulah Riley led me here from Pride and Prejudice, but it was also a nice memorial for John Sessions, who died on November 2. He gives a just-this-side-of-camp performance as someone of 'unsavoury practices' - whilst Keith Allen is over the line into almost Clouseau territory as the detective - Shankland should have reined him in (he directed Les Mis and episodes of The Missing.) Like all my favourite Marples, it's the love story running parallel to the murders that makes it so warm - Kevin Elyot wrote it, from Agatha's 1942 novel, in which Marple only appears towards the end. But the rest of the story - including this romance - is all there.
Joining the fabulous Geraldine McEwan are James D'Arcy, Emilia Fox, Jessica Hynes, Sean Pertwee, Harry Enfield, Frances de la Tour, Kelly Brook, Imogen Stubbs, Thelma Barlow, Rosalind Knight. It was photographed by the irresistibly named Cinders Forshaw, who's DPed Vera, Shetland, Poldark and Poliakoff's Perfect Strangers.
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| Kelly Brook |
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| Talulah Riley |
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| Emilia Fox |
Filmed in Chilham in Kent.
Tal's been in a number of little known films including having directed one, Scottish Mussel, with Martin Compston, which has very mixed reviews.
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