by Tori Potenza, Staff Writer
This is a gorgeous genre film with an important social message that is literally covered in the blood, sweat, and tears of a passionate filmmaker and it leaves you wanting to watch it again as soon as the credits start to roll.
by Fiona Underhill, Staff Writer
With David Copperfield and Sir Gawain, Patel finally got to inhabit two British men very much at the center of their own story, but wrestling with that story before our very eyes.
Written and directed by Armando Iannucci
Starring Dev Patel, Hugh Laurie and Tilda Swinton
Running time: 1 hour and 59 minutes
MPAA rating: PG for thematic material and brief violence
be Ryan Smillie
A Charles Dickens adaptation is supposed to be dreary. Impoverished orphans in factories, delinquent debtors in prison, jilted lovers in faded wedding dresses. And these elements certainly play a major role in Dickens’s novels, through which Dickens sought to expose and satirize the bleak conditions and hidden inequalities of Victorian society. Equally present, however, are the novels’ timeless sense of humor and their unforgettably distinct characters.
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