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Charles Dickens's England
Directed by
Julian Richards
2009
2h
Documentary
,
History
7.1
23%
38%
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The film looks at the places Charles Dickens lived and worked and how he used them in his novels and stories.
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Cast of Charles Dickens's England
Derek Jacobi
Himself - Presenter
Adrian Wootton
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Roy Hattersley
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Charles Dickens's England Ratings & Reviews
Guardian
Peter Bradshaw
A bizarrely stilted, placid, agonisingly slow and hypnotisingly wooden documentary presented by Sir Derek Jacobi. It is like something that might appear on schools TV if everyone behind the camera had been smoking a Constable-Hay-Wain quantity of ganja.
Independent (UK)
Anthony Quinn
Cut it by an hour and it could be a good and useful introduction to Dickens for English GCSE students, but in its present form this has no place on a cinema screen anywhere.
Empire Magazine
Patrick Peters
Whilst the tone and intention are admirable, the excess of facts and locations spread the message and cohesiveness a little thin.
London Evening Standard
Derek Malcolm
Painful in the extreme, showing how even the best actor can be made uncomfortable by clumsy direction.
Times (UK)
Toby Young
A comically inept documentary.
Financial Times
Nigel Andrews
This combination of documentary of literary travelogue has no pretensions at all, merely a mad, endearing, Dickensian innocence.
Ultra Culture
Charlie Lyne
It's the most astonishly inept (and inadvertently hilarious) piece of filmmaking I've seen in a long time.
Sunday Times (UK)
Edward Porter
He's a ghost of documentaries past: an actorly tour guide reciting lines not written by him, putting on glasses with a scholarly flourish, staring into space to underline poignant moments in the narrative.
Observer (UK)
Philip French
A bland, old-fashioned documentary with a bland, old-fashioned view of Dickens.
Daily Express (UK)
Allan Hunter
The presentation is pedestrian, the tone is overly reverent and the viewer might find their time better spent reading a Dickens classic.
Film4
James Mottram
The sort of film even an A-level student of Charles Dickens would find redundant, Julian Richards' slapdash effort is staggeringly inept at times. Best suited to television, it feels so archaic it certainly merits the moniker 'Dickensian'.
Sky Cinema
Tim Evans
Jacobi is an enthusiastic guide while you could easily imagine some of the contributors - an endearingly eccentric bunch - appearing on the pages of David Copperfield or Bleak House.
ViewLondon
Matthew Turner
So badly written and so ineptly directed that it's often difficult to sit through without giggling.
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