![]() ![]() “The Man Who Invented Christmas” is a colorful, often-manic imagining of the creative process that Dickens endures to create what is, depending on whom you talk to, the greatest Christmas story every. Faced with mounting debt, his friend and literary agent, John Forster (Justin Edwards), pushes Dickens to come up with a new, publishable story – fast. Except, it is a very important object, indeed. Dan Stevens stars as the famous author who, when we first meet him, is in the throes of lavishly decorating his new home and money is no object. Director Bharat Nalluri, with Susan Coyne’s adaption of the Les Standiford’s non-fiction book, The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits, takes a mirthful route. That film, though about its mirthful characters, is more about the after effects of war and the burden of fame. We had another how-the-book-came-to-be film recently with “Goodbye Christopher Robin,” about the creation of the beloved Winnie-the-Pooh stories. ![]() ![]() Dan Stevens gives an energetically madcap performance and the film does a good job of both analyzing the creative process and illustrating how Dickens's story really did change the way we celebrate Christmas, but one wonders just who this film is for - too sophisticated for small children and not sophisticated enough for adults. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |