A Haunting in Venice’s twisty ending explained

The Haunted of Venice is Kenneth Branagh’s third outing as mustachioed detective Hercule Poirot, and critics and fans have been full of praise for his latest adaptation of Agatha Christie. In the new film, Poirot is invited by an old friend to investigate a woman who claims to be a medium, who is holding a séance at a famous haunted house in Venice owned by a famous opera singer, where her daughter recently died. So what was the truth in the case? Find out here and warning, lots of spoilers ahead…

Despite hearing voices and talking to a little girl who appeared to be Rowena Drake’s daughter Alicia, as well as the shocking deaths of fraudulent medium Joyce Reynolds and troubled doctor Leslie Ferrier, Poirot is undeterred by a series of ghostly encounters. in a house said to be haunted by the souls of orphans left there to die during the plague.

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Instead, he realizes that his friend, Ariadne Oliver, worked in league with his bodyguard, Vitale Portfoglio, to convince him to attend the séance. Assisting in the media stunts, Ariadne hoped to encourage Poirot to return to work after his retirement and uncover the case as material for her next book, after her three recent novels had failed. Despite this, the couple is not responsible for the murder.

Poirot finally concludes, out of his own confusion, that Ariadne accidentally poisoned him using a certain type of honey grown by Rowena. Ariadne unknowingly put it in his tea after a mysterious person tried to kill him, but he was actually poisoned by flowers that Rowena got during a visit to Istanbul.

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He reveals that Rowena was furious and miserable that Alicia had fallen in love and got engaged to Maxime, leaving her ‘abandoned’. After the engagement broke off and realizing that Alicia’s lover wanted to make up with her, Rowena kept Alicia poisoned and weak, and refused to allow her ex-fiancé to visit her.

After being persuaded to rest after staying with Alicia, Alicia was actually accidentally killed by her housekeeper, Olga, who fed her an overdose of honey tea, not knowing it was poison. Realizing Olga’s mistake after finding her daughter dead, Alicia threw her over the wall of the building, feigning suicide.

After receiving blackmail letters about the death, Rowena suspects that Joyce or Leslie are behind it. She kills Joyce and changes the clock in the music room for an ironclad alibi, before convincing the doctor to kill himself after locking him in a room and then threatening to hurt his son, Leopold. After being exposed, it is revealed that she had hoped to end the blackmail while attributing the two deaths to hauntings in her Venetian home.

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© 20th Century StudiosRiccardo Scamarcio as Vitale Portfoglio, Camille Cottin as Olga Seminoff, Jude Hill as Leopold Ferrier, Tina Fey as Ariadne Oliver, Kelly Reilly as Rowena Drake, Emma Laird as Desdemona Holland, Ali Khan as Nicholas Holland and Kyle Allen as Maxime Gerard

It is eventually revealed that Leopold was the one behind the blackmail letters, after recognizing signs of poison on Alicia’s body, which his father had missed. He used the money to help Leslie, who was shocked and traumatized after World War II and unable to work as such.

The film’s conclusion also leaves Hercule’s thoughts on the supernatural entities in the house somewhat questionable, as he seems to believe Leopold, who claims to hear the voices of children who died there.

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