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Best world films.
Charles Dickens is digested in Bougainville in Mr. Pip, Andrew Adamson’s ambitious re-telling of Great Expectations by way of adapting Lloyd Jones’s novel.
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It’s ambitious, it’s bloody and it’s confusing. This sprawling dramatisation is sure to be a curiosity, if not more, among Dickens devotees, and there are many, but there are many retellings of Dickens classics in the marketplace – in and out of other works of literature – and their natural destiny is usually television rather than the big screen.
Outside the English-speaking world, the market for Mr. Pip may be small.
Laurie as a teacher attempting the impossible, taking a community from pre-history into circumstances beyond their control, bares the helplessness of the outside world as the horror of history unfold.
Adamson’s film reaches far and wide to capture the scope of Jones’s novel, following a young girl from her initiation to Dickens by a British ex-pat teacher (Hugh Laurie as the last white man in