Good adaptation of Sean Day-Lewis novel (written under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake), filmed previously by Chabrol as Que La Bête Meure. Quite the best thing Cush Jumbo has been in so far. Great performance too from Billy Howle (Dunkirk, On Chesil Beach, The Serpent, Chloe).
Rest of cast good too. Jared Harris, Mia Tomlinson, Nathaniel Parker, Geraldine James, Barney Sayburn, Maeve Dermody, Douggie McMeekin (detective), Nico Mirallegro (young troublemaker), Aasiya Shah (PC).
Karukoski made Tolkein, something called Tom of Finland, and lots of Finnish films with unpronounceable titles. His mother is Finnish and father was the American actor George Dickerson, who was in Blue Velvet and much on TV.
I found the soundtrack rather noisy. I have a feeling that what's going on is we're getting sound effects from the yacht coming in earlier as kind of 'mood' noises, but I don't think it works very well.
Music Matthew Herbert, DP Joel Devlin, editors Mike Jones, Dan Roberts.
A Britbox original in 5 one hour parts.
Chiappe wrote Misbehaviour and Their Finest and thus is a bloody good chiappe. Before that, episodes of Vera, Shetland. The Paradise, Lark Rise.
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