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

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…