Psychic Pain (and Composer Hildur Guðnadóttir) Are the Common Denominators Between Lydia Tár and Hercule Poirot

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Psychic Pain (and Composer Hildur Guðnadóttir) Are the Common Denominators Between Lydia Tár and Hercule Poirot

Agatha Christie was the master of the perfectly constructed mystery; Oscar winner Hildur Guðnadóttir (“Joker,” “Tár,”) is an avant-garde cellist-composer. Yet the two meet to spine-tingling results for Kenneth Branagh’s third Hercule Poirot mystery, “A Haunting in Venice,” a loose adaptation of Christie’s “Hallowe’en Party.” As it turns out, there’s a very good reason why Guðnadóttir might find pleasure in Christie’s work. “My grandmother, who w…