She is powerful and raw as Henny, a character that mourns for the past and struggled with her friendship with Agnes. Her acting abilities have always impressed me, and they did once more here. Chan is not new to the field, starring in high-profile pictures such as Crazy Rich Asians, Captain Marvel, and Transformers: The Last Knight. I felt a true connection to the characters this time around because they were actually fully developed.īefore even going in to watch this movie, I was already a little bit excited knowing that Gemma Chan was in the film as one of the lead characters. A screenplay that, much like the others, takes a bit to get going, but eventually gets genuinely interesting. Some part of me thinks it’s both.ĭaniel Alfredson and Birgitta Bongenhielm wrote the screenplay for Dear Agnes. Yes, it still plays out in the traditional style of each Intrigo film before it, but it’s either I have gotten used to this style of storytelling now, or the plotline here was actually interesting. It’s heaps and bounds better than the stories we got previously. Thankfully, in a shocking twist, Dear Agnes is not only the best entry of the trilogy, but it is actually a good movie.Ī large part of why this is is due to the screenplay. Samaria was a step-up but still not enough to impress. It was painfully complex and ridiculously sloppy. The weakest one of the bunch is without a doubt the first, Death of an Author. With that being said, however, I have noticed over the course of these three movies that they slowly get better as each movie passes. The writing in each of them manages to handle the stories in such sloppy ways that make you disappointed knowing what the potential could have been. They all have such terrific concepts that end up ultimately going to waste. The Intrigo trilogy so far has been quite frustrating with me, especially the first two. What really happened between Agnes and Henny in Bruges all those years ago? How could it be that two people who enjoyed one another’s company so much, could end up hurting each other so badly? They, who had loved each other so much. Agnes realizes that the past has caught up with her and that she has no choice. She’s prepared to pay good money and also to let Agnes choose the manner in which David is to die. Henny is married to David and asks Agnes to help her murder him. Agnes is completely thrown by Henny’s proposal. Now Henny seeks reconciliation.īut Agnes seems cautious. A friendship both rewarding and demanding, which ended in disaster. They were once very close, Agnes and Henny (Gemma Chan). Agnes senses that someone is watching her and glimpses a woman roughly her own age standing nearby. Agnes is burying her much older husband and the children are his, not hers. What is a human life worth? How is it possible that a woman like Agnes (Carla Juni) could agree to kill another human being? Is it the money? Or are there other forces at play? A funeral.
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