the personal history of david copperfield by charles dickens

Oh, and did I also mention Tilda Swinton and Hugh Laurie? How can you not revel in the acting choices made in this film. Wickfield are perfectly and cleverly cast. Micaber to Ben Wheatley as Uriah Heep to Rosiland Eleazar as Agnes to Benedict Wong as Mr. Every one from Dev Patel as David to Peter Capaldi as Mr. What's refreshing is that he does this without a self-congratulatory smugness of a contemporary filmmaker 'correcting' inequities but rather with the excitement of someone just not being bound by old conventions. Iannucci keeps the film set in the mid-1800s but he gives the world a modern spin with his color blind casting that fills Dickens' London with a racially diverse group. His life is filled with the kinds of eccentric characters that we expect from Dickens as well as the kind of extremes in terms of failure and success, wealth and poverty, good and bad people. Emmy winners and Oscar nominees Armando Iannucci (IN THE LOOP, THE DEATH OF STALIN, HBO’S “Veep” and “Avenue 5”) and Simon Blackwell (IN THE LOOP, HBO’S “Succession”) lend their wry, yet heart-filled storytelling style to revisiting Dickens’ iconic hero on his quirky journey from impoverished orphan to burgeoning writer in Victorian England.David Copperfield (played by Dev Patel as an adult), is a young man who experiences poverty and tragedy as a child, escapes through his imagination, makes some bad choices but ultimately proves to be a good man. THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD re-imagines Charles Dickens’ classic ode to grit and perseverance through the comedic lens of its award-winning filmmakers- giving the Dickensian tale new life for a cosmopolitan age with a diverse ensemble cast of stage and screen actors from across the world. Here’s the official synopsis of The Personal History of David Copperfield: You can catch The Personal History of David Copperfield for yourself when it arrives in theaters on August 28th.

I had the opportunity to catch the film at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival and was absolutely delighted by the film’s upbeat and lively vibe, but also quite taken by David’s journey coming to embrace his own identity amidst the multitude of big personalities around him.

The personal history of david copperfield by charles dickens