Dev Patel stars in The Personal History of David Copperfield this Sunday on M-Net | Channel24
), you probably won’t be surprised to hear that his stylish and stylized adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic is really bloody good and really, really funny but you would probably be surprised to hear just how big-hearted, uncynical and sentimental it is.
With a framing device of David Copperfield relaying his life story at a public reading, not only do we get narration that actually feels earned when so much narration in film suffers so badly from the sin of telling and not showing, but it allows Messrs. Ainnuci and Blackwell to really get creative in how they tell this familiar story.
As for that spectacular cast, it’s hard not to write paragraphs about how perfect each of the major are in their roles.
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