![]() ![]() Yes, as you likely know if you know the source material, its hero, the most autobiographical in Charles Dickens’ body of work, does go through it. So one of the things that’s most surprising about his new picture, which he co-wrote with Simon Blackwell-is its life-affirming sunniness. (And that his realism has been lapped by reality.) Some might call Iannucci a cynic, but one need merely look about the world today to see he’s more of a realist with an edge. And then there was 2017’s “ The Death of Stalin,” perhaps his most mordant burlesque. As an indirect indictment of the war in Iraq it was in the end more heartbreaking than hilarious. leaders unleashing the dogs of war mainly to satisfy their own vanity. The 2009 movie “In the Loop,” spun off of “Thick of It,” brought the hammer down on U.S. His British series “The Thick of It” was a dizzying treatment of the spin doctors around Downing Street the HBO series “Veep” took its horrific pleasure in the swamps of D.C. ![]() And he’s placed these vulgar, coarse monsters and demi-monsters in the corridors of power, where they can inflict damage not only on each other but on the world at large. Up until now, the Scottish writer/director Armando Iannucci has shown a deft, almost feral facility in depicting characters who act with both casual and calculated cruelty. ![]()
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