The film by Christine Edzard, released in two sections, three hours each, titled Nobody’s Fault and Little Dorrit’s Story, made in 1987, is the finest of all adaptations of Dickens’s novels. The settings, costumes, miniature work, photography, script, direction, and, above all, casting, of faces and bodies and voices, create a world on film that is the nearest equivalent so far to that presented by Dickens in his best work. Do not forget
It is important to remember that Edzard makes her films the old fashioned way, like Murnau and Ulmer did, in her case in her own film studio in Rotherhithe on the Thames, so the set can be adjusted for each shot, or section of the film. She does not strive for what passes as realism in contemporary film. There is no digital work, so far as I know. All of her effects are practical. Fools might dismiss her as a primitive, when in fact she is one of the most gifted and sophisticated artists now working in film.
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