Really overwhelmed at how beautifully @Aiannucci 's 'David Copperfield' not only channels the characteristic perceptiveness, joy, humour and generosity of Dickens's writing, and makes it contemporary and immediate, but also thematises the act of writing itself, it's superb.
I was a bit hesitant, I thought this was one of those opportunistic movies that just tries to diversify the cast while losing the content and context. I will check it.
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Neither a q of quota worthiness or historical accuracy, the 'diversity' ends up becoming effective at contemporanizing the whole thing, killing off the insufferable precious englishness=whitebess of period drama, and reminding you that Dickens is about people
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I'm completely sold.
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