Updated: December 13, 2020 8:39:34 am
The Personal History of David Copperfield hit cinema halls on Friday.
The Personal History of David Copperfield movie cast: Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Aneurin Barnard, Peter Capaldi, Morfydd Clark, Daisy May Cooper, Rosalind Eleazar, Hugh Lawrie, Ben Whishaw, Jairaj Varsani, Bronagh Gallagher
The Personal History of David Copperfield movie director: Armando Iannucci
The Personal History of David Copperfield movie rating: Three and a half stars
‘David Copperfield’, Charles Dickens’ eighth novel, is a universal favourite. In Iannucci’s candy-coloured version, with its sparing use of Dickensian dourness, and darkness, we get a perfect David for these uncertain times. Both as the young ‘un (Varsani) who has to deal with a cruel step-father, as well as the adolescent (Patel) facing a long period of brutal hard work, the essential optimism of David, boy to man, is always in evidence.