Dev Patel plays Charles Dickens' favorite child in this sprawling new adaptation.
) — a sharp eye for human eccentricity, a gift for orchestrating chaos and confusion in close quarters — spring from a recognizably Dickensian tradition.
And it’s the question of identity that brings us to the most obvious difference between this “David Copperfield” and its many cinematic predecessors, one that must be noted here even if the movie leaves it exquisitely unremarked upon. Patel, whose David is played as a younger boy by Ranveer Jaiswal and Jairaj Varsani, isin Iannucci’s sprawling ensemble. The others include Anthony Welsh as Ham Peggotty, who welcomes young David to the seaside town of Yarmouth .
Fortunately, Iannucci is a master at locating absurdity everywhere he looks, and he recognizes that few things are more absurd than ingrained prejudice and received wisdom. The sheer variety of faces we encounter in “The Personal History of David Copperfield” can be read as a sly corrective to the currents of xenophobia that critics have long pointed out in Dickens’ work.
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