Blithe Spirit review: Thoroughly enjoyable chaos
Sky Cinema / StudioCanal / © Blithe Spirit Productions, Ltd 2019 Dear oh dear. No one seems to like the latest adaptation of Noel Coward’s 1941 supernatural caper, Blithe Spirit; the film has been derided as ‘tin-eared’, ‘lumpen-footed’ and 'perversely unfunny'; for one sour reviewer, the reboot is even proof that ’some things are better left dead’. Dan Stevens and Leslie Mann as Charles and Elvira Condomine in Blithe Spirit Sky Cinema / StudioCanal / © Blithe Spirit Productions, Ltd 2019 Advertisement Objection. This good-humoured adaptation is certainly no work of genius, b...