2005 · comedy · mystery · music
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Directed by Pascal Thomas1h 45m2005
The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.
Our read: By the Pricking of My Thumbs (2005) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · mystery · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / mystery, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- gentle
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