What is Blithe Spirit about?

Blithe Spirit is the film adaptation of Noël Coward’s classic 1941 play. Set in the glamorous days of 1937, it follows the story of a novelist called Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to gather material for his next book.

However, the scheme backfires when he is haunted by the ghost of his first wife Elvira after the séance. Elvira makes continual attempts to disrupt Charles’s marriage to his second wife, Ruth, who cannot see or hear the ghost.

Sounds like a hoot, right?

Watch the trailer for Blithe Spirit

Blithe Spirit: Judi Dench’s comedy about spirits and séances is coming to our screens in January