2008 · comedy · crime · mystery
Crime Is Our Business
Directed by Pascal Thomas1h 49m2008
Loosely based on "4.50 from Paddington" by Agatha Christie.
Our read: Crime Is Our Business (2008) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · crime · mystery entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- gentle
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“You want a playful French whodunit with eccentric sleuths and Christie charm.”
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