The Mystery of Henri Pick (Le Mystère Henri Pick) (2019)

In this jaunty comedy-mystery, like an Agatha Christie but without the murder, a book critic, smarting after losing his job and marriage, sets out like a detective to prove that a deceased pizza maker in Brittany was not the author of a bestselling novel.

★★★☆☆

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Shirley (2020)

Does it say more about me or this drama that the movie, a choppily edited, goal-diffuse and, regarding the characters and their behaviours, a largely psychologically incoherent one (who knows scene-to-scene, for example, if Shirley and her husband love each other or not, are co-conspirators in mischief or not, are each other's bitterest enemy or most devoted supporter or not) ended without me knowing Shirley, the title character, is Shirley Jackson, the famous US horror novellist I've since had to learn about on Wikipedia?

★★☆☆☆

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