The long flashback that comprises most of the movie begins with David haring from the lectern to his Suffolk family home, Blunderstone Rookery, which abuts the cemetery where his father is buried and where he waits with Aunt Betsey (Tilda Swinton) in the parlor as his mother Clara (Morfydd Clark) gives birth to him upstairs.
This framing device draws on the public readings Dickens began in December 1853 when he was forty-one. David (Dev Patel) first appears as a twenty-something memoirist standing at a lectern onstage in front of a diverse audience to whom he will read the story of his life.
Iannucci and co-writer Simon Blackwell streamlined Dickens’s narrative: the novel unfolds between 18 the film from 1841 to around 1867. The film seamlessly integrates Dickensian one-man showmanship the part that acting (dear to Dickens) plays in everyday life and cinema itself through the intermittent uses of partial rear projection and the accelerated speed of silent-film comedies-old-fashioned special effects that paradoxically render Dickens’s world more modern that it has appeared in other film and television adaptations of his work.
He searches for personal sovereignty and a watertight familial identity, expressing impatience when different names are foisted on him (“Trotwood Copperfield,” “Trot,” “Davidson,” “Daisy, “Doady”). Through his journey to adulthood, he experiences both kindness, from quasiguardians like his spiky aunt Betsey Trotwood and the jovial bankrupt Micawber, and cruelty from his rigid stepfather Mr. David’s father has died before his birth and his beloved mother dies in his boyhood, leaving him adrift.
Iannucci’s exuberant take on this classic Bildungsroman is doubly Dickensian-redolent of the author’s use of caricatures embedded with social meaning, and of the man himself at his most active and gregarious. There are many reasons to praise Armando Iannucci’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’s The Personal History of David Copperfield (1850), the eighth and most autobiographical of his fourteen completed novels and his favorite among them. Produced by Armando Iannucci and Kevin Loader directed by Armando Iannucci screenplay by Simon Blackwell and Armando Iannucci, based on the novel The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account) by Charles Dickens cinematography by Zac Nicholson production design by Cristina Casali costume design by Suzie Harman and Robert Worley edited by Mick Audsley and Peter Lambert music by Christopher Willis starring Dev Patel, Jairaj Varsani, Morfydd Clark, Daisy May Cooper, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi, Rosalind Eleazar, Benedict Wong, Ben Whishaw, Darren Boyd, Gwendoline Christie, Aneurin Barnard, Paul Whitehouse, Anthony Welsh, Aimée Kelly, Rosaleen Linehan, and Bronagh Gallagher.
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