Monday, 20 November 2017

The Old Curiosity Shop (2007 Brian Percival)

Which is curious.. as there's not much about the Old Curiosity Shop in it - which I suppose is one of the shortcomings in abridging a Dickens novel into ninety minutes - Martyn Hesford did the adaptation. There's certainly no customers.

Anyway, Sophie Vavasseur is the (slightly colourless) in-danger heroine, her useless gambling addict father is Derek Jacobi, and Toby Jones makes a truly vile and unredeemable Quilp. It's all appropriately dark and dingy and sinister, well shot by Peter Greenhalgh in Ireland locations.

With Gina McKee and Adam Godley, Anna Madeley and Josey Lawrence, Adrian Rawlings, Geoffrey Breton (Dick Swiveller sounds so much like a Carry On name) and Charlene McKenna, Bryan Dick (we last saw him in Capital), George MacKay (you know, Pride, Private Peaceful, Hunky Dory, The Boys Are Back), Martin Freeman and Steve Pemberton, Zoe Wanamaker.



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