The Mysterious Affair at Styles

The Mysterious Affair at Styles is an unusual, collage-like adaptation of Agatha Christie’s first novel.

For the film, the creators used the footage of more than a hundred silent films: the associative montage is accompanied by the reasoning of Hercule Poirot (Pál Mácsai), who knows how to solve the crime with his trademark precision. What could have been going on in the skull of the legendary private detective? What images swirled in his famous gray matter? The film attempts to uniquely model this, as there has never been an example in film history of pairing collage film with classic “whodunit” crime.