THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES
dir. Péter Lichter, 2022
65 mins. Hungary.
In Hungarian with English subtitles.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4 - 5 PM ($10 w/Q&A)
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12 - 7:30 PM
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25 - 7:30 PM
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28 - 10 PM

Undoubtedly the better of the two films featuring detective Hercule Poirot to screen in the United States this year, Lichter’s latest foray in appropriation filmmaking adapts Agatha Christie’s 1920 murder mystery of the same name through a combination of intermedial elements such as classic silent and early sound films, video games, Excel spreadsheets, Google street views, and other software tools. The result is a dizzying black and white array of overlapping split-screens that simultaneously reconfigure a century’s worth of analog and computational visual artifacts. At times overwhelming by design, this retelling of Poirot’s first case never obscures the grisliness or wit of Christie’s tale.

Lichter will be joining us again for a remote Q&A on Saturday, November 4 after the 5 PM screening.