![]() ![]() (Kudos to cinematographer Zac Nicholson for infusing the film with beautiful and memorable visuals.)Īs a young man, David lives with a variety of offbeat hosts, who call him by different names in a running joke straight out of the novel. ![]() “The Personal History of David Copperfield” is actually faithful in its adaptation of the main characters and major plot developments in the novel, with the title character (played by Dev Patel in another in a long line of strong performances) narrating his own story, which is rendered with the help of visually innovative transitional devices, e.g., green-screen style backdrops, cleverly conceived graphics and, at one, point, a giant hand reaching right into a scene to scramble things. Stylized period-piece pics are all the fashion these days, from “The Favourite” to “Emma” to “Radioactive” to “Tesla” to the gloriously creative and multiculturally cast “The Personal History of David Copperfield,” in which director/co-writer Armando Iannucci (creator of HBO’s “Veep”) transforms Charles Dickens’ masterful but often dour and cumbersome 624-page Victorian novel into a brilliant piece of entertainment that often plays like “Alice in Wonderland” as interpreted by Monty Python. ![]()
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