The puzzles in “Enola Holmes” are not especially difficult, but they’re enough to stump the great Sherlock Holmes (played here by “Man of Steel” star Henry Cavill). To solve this particular mystery…
” are not especially difficult, but they’re enough to stump the great Sherlock Holmes . To solve this particular mystery — which involves the disappearance of the detective’s mother Eudoria — will require an even sharper intellect than Sherlock’s, which we find in the form of his spunky younger sister, Enola , an untamed country wildflower who has spent her first 16 years on earth preparing for just such a case, though she didn’t realize it at the time.
Adapted from the first installment in a six-book series by Nancy Springer, “Enola Holmes” modernizes the Victorian world of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, enlisting “Fleabag” directorto bring a similarly breezy, direct-address approach to the material.
Although it was her mother’s unexplained sortie that prompted her adventure, it’s the equally peculiar appearance of Partridge’s character — a cute young lord entitled Viscount Tewkesbury, Marquess of Basilwether — that consumes her attention for much of the film. After rescuing this “useless boy” from an assassin , Enola goes her own way, only to recognize that they’re both on the run from their respective families.
“You don’t know what it is to be out of power,” one of Eudoria’s female friends scolds Sherlock, doing that distinctly 2020 thing of calling out a prominent man on his privilege. “You have no interest in changing a world that suits you so well.
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