The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019)
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/scope 119m
Director: Armando Iannucci
Cast: Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi, Rosalind Eleazar, Ben Whishaw, Aneurin Barnard
Synopsis:
David is born and raised by his mother, cast out by his stepfather, taken in by the Micawbers and then rescued by his aunt. Class and money issues dog his life until the time comes when his lifelong scribblings can be turned into a means of support.
Review:
A rainbow fantasia of a Dickens classic, whose appropriations and expropriations almost seem to be there to excuse one of the most egregiously 'inclusive' pieces of casting ever foisted on a literary classic: an Anglo-Indian David with a white mother, an African Agnes with a Japanese father, etc. It moves at a fair lick, as you might expect from this writer-director, avoids profanity, as you might not, and all in all provides solid, and peculiarly British, entertainment over the course of two hours.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/scope 119m
Director: Armando Iannucci
Cast: Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi, Rosalind Eleazar, Ben Whishaw, Aneurin Barnard
Synopsis:
David is born and raised by his mother, cast out by his stepfather, taken in by the Micawbers and then rescued by his aunt. Class and money issues dog his life until the time comes when his lifelong scribblings can be turned into a means of support.
Review:
A rainbow fantasia of a Dickens classic, whose appropriations and expropriations almost seem to be there to excuse one of the most egregiously 'inclusive' pieces of casting ever foisted on a literary classic: an Anglo-Indian David with a white mother, an African Agnes with a Japanese father, etc. It moves at a fair lick, as you might expect from this writer-director, avoids profanity, as you might not, and all in all provides solid, and peculiarly British, entertainment over the course of two hours.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/scope 119m
Director: Armando Iannucci
Cast: Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi, Rosalind Eleazar, Ben Whishaw, Aneurin Barnard
Synopsis:
David is born and raised by his mother, cast out by his stepfather, taken in by the Micawbers and then rescued by his aunt. Class and money issues dog his life until the time comes when his lifelong scribblings can be turned into a means of support.
Review:
A rainbow fantasia of a Dickens classic, whose appropriations and expropriations almost seem to be there to excuse one of the most egregiously 'inclusive' pieces of casting ever foisted on a literary classic: an Anglo-Indian David with a white mother, an African Agnes with a Japanese father, etc. It moves at a fair lick, as you might expect from this writer-director, avoids profanity, as you might not, and all in all provides solid, and peculiarly British, entertainment over the course of two hours.