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“The Personal History of David Copperfield” (Fox Searchlight)

By: The Catholic Post   -   September 4, 2020   -   Movie Review Armando Ianucci, Charles Dickens, Dev Patel, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi, Tilda Swinton

Dev Patel stars in a scene from the 2020 film "The Personal History of David Copperfield." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Dean Rogers, courtesy Twentieth Century Fox)

By Catholic News Service Of the numerous film adaptations of Charles Dickens’ autobiographical 1850 novel, this may rank as the happiest. As directed by Armando Ianucci, who adapted the screenplay with Simon Blackwell, the movie finds Copperfield (Ranveer Jaiswal and Jairaj Varsani as a boy, Dev Patel as a man) facing life’s challenges, which include […]