Geraldine McEwan fits the image of Miss Marple like a palm to a glove.
She's rather unassuming, sympathetic and unimposing even in the denouement scenes. In "Towards Zero" there's one of most unusal denouements in the Marple series, and the whole scenery with the rocks, sea and the hotel rather reminds of Poirot's Evil Undee the Sun. The plot revolves around a familiar get-together at the mansion of Lady Camilla Tresillian (Eileen Atkins), Marple's school colleague who's attending as well. As usual, someone's been murdered after the dinner party and she uses her little gray knitting-needles to divide the suspects from the perpetrator in that "don't-mind-me" fashion that suits her so well. The other actors also hit the nail on the head with their characters, like Eileen Atkins' chain-smoking and cynical Lady Camilla and Greg Wise as the handsome Wimbledon heartthrob who causes a stir with both his wife and ex-wife attending the soiree. Well worth your time.
She's rather unassuming, sympathetic and unimposing even in the denouement scenes. In "Towards Zero" there's one of most unusal denouements in the Marple series, and the whole scenery with the rocks, sea and the hotel rather reminds of Poirot's Evil Undee the Sun. The plot revolves around a familiar get-together at the mansion of Lady Camilla Tresillian (Eileen Atkins), Marple's school colleague who's attending as well. As usual, someone's been murdered after the dinner party and she uses her little gray knitting-needles to divide the suspects from the perpetrator in that "don't-mind-me" fashion that suits her so well. The other actors also hit the nail on the head with their characters, like Eileen Atkins' chain-smoking and cynical Lady Camilla and Greg Wise as the handsome Wimbledon heartthrob who causes a stir with both his wife and ex-wife attending the soiree. Well worth your time.