The Personal History of David Copperfield
Directed by Armando Iannucci
Charles Dickens’ fictional world turns out to be a natural home for Veep creator Armando Iannucci, said Katey Rich in VanityFair .com. Iannucci’s lively new film reminds us “how modern David Copperfield has felt all along,” because the 1850 novel presents as a writer’s account of a writer’s life story, and Iannucci gleefully exploits the opportunity to hustle the tale along where needed and to goose each scene for maximum audience pleasure. Assisted by “a ridiculously stacked cast” that starts with Dev Patel in the title role, the movie makes every stop in David’s up-and-down journey “a new gift for the audience to unwrap.” With Tilda Swinton, Ben Whishaw, and Hugh Laurie in