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The 44th Film Festival is currently being held in Toronto, Canada. This is the big rendezvous of the film season in North America. This is where the big productions kick off the campaign for the next Oscars. Also there was a world premiere of British film David Copperfield, a new version of Charles Dickens' novel, a nineteenth-century classic.
From our special correspondent in Toronto , Sophie Torlotin
There are countless adaptations of David Copperfield in the cinema. No doubt because this eighth novel by Charles Dickens is his most optimistic. The hero experiences all sorts of incredible adventures, going through an emotional roller coaster: child surrounded by love, rejected by his violent father-in-law who sends him to work in his London factory in the midst of the industrial revolution ... Orphan, David Copperfield is finally collected by his fantastic aunt, studied in a chic high school then knows new setbacks of fortune.
A rhythm removed
How the satirist Armando Iannucci, acclaimed two years ago for his farce, The death of Stalin , would he revisit this work on the screen dozens of times? Well he chooses to deliver a version at once respectful of the original work, a film in costumes, but it is also a refreshing version.
The rhythm is removed, comic situations and often surreal. Above all, the British director chose a 4-star cast, Tilda Swinton and Hugh Laurie in the lead, but a casting also mixed, reflecting the current diversity. Dev Patel, a young actor of Indian descent, plays David Copperfield, full of energy, who always stands up despite the hardships and who aroused the enthusiasm of the festival-goers.