SNAP

In September 2020, while the rest of the world suffered through the COVID pandemic, New Zealand for a time was normal and Anne Manchester directed SNAP – a classic whodunit based on the novel “Photo Finish” by Ngaio Marsh – the New Zealand Queen of the genre.

2020 SNAP!

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An extremely temperamental Callas-style operatic diva, Isabella Sommita, has been hounded around the world by an odious member of the paparazzi. Her manager takes her to a grand but remote
lodge on a South Island lake and invites the London-based portrait painter Troy Alleyn (and her detective husband, Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard) to paint her portrait. We meet a cast of larger- than-life characters and watch as the brilliant detective unravels an operatic-style murder.