The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019)
Comedy
Rating: 4/5 Very good lots to enjoy
Director: Armando Iannucci.(PG).
Synopsis
A curious and comical fate awaits young David Copperfield who, because his father dies before he was born, is left a ward at the mercy of the cruel adults around him.
Review by @Reelreviewer
Armando Iannucci and his Thick of It and Veep co-writer Simon Blackwell cast their satirical eyes on one of Charles Dickens' most famous and best loved epic novels.
It's a meeting of minds in many ways because the source novel is suitably barmy and off the wall for two such men as these...and what a grand job of adapting it they make.
It proceeds at a cracking pace and certainly crams in a lot of the book, but the rushed and cluttered approach eventually becomes too much and we lose some meaning. Mr Micawber, played so well by Peter Capaldi, is supposed to have a huge influence on the young David's life, but the character is little more than a genial walk-on.
It's still a ripping good yarn and with a splendid and ethnically diverse cast (Dev Patel is excellent in the lead role) you are in good company, in the sure knowledge that something good will most definitely turn up.
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1 hr 59 mins/119 mins. Film 4/FilmNation Entertainment.
Cast & credits
Producers: Armando Iannucci, Kevin Loader.
Writers: Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci.
Camera: Zac Nicholson.
Music: Christopher Willis.
Sets: Cristina Casali.
Dev Patel, Hugh Laurie, Tilda Swinton, Peter Capaldi, Daisy May Cooper, Rosalind Eleazar, Ben Wishaw, Aneurin Barnard, Darren Boyd, Gwendoline Christie, Morfydd Clark, Bronagh Gallagher, Anna Maxwell Martin, Jairaj Varsani, Paul Whitehouse, Benedict Wong, Nikki Amuka-Bird.
