ISLAMABAD: The National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage (Lok Virsa) Mandwa Film Club would organize screening of literary classic film “Oliver Twist” on December 16 at its media centre.
Executive Director Lok Virsa Dr. Fouzia and film fans from twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi would attend the film screening.
Film “Oliver Twist” (2005) – a film adaptation by director Roman Polanski starring Ben Kingsley, Barney Clark, Michael Heath, and Jeremy Swift. The screenplay is written by Ronald Harwood.
The book written by Charles Dickens in 1839, Oliver Twist is hailed as a social novel which satirizes the hypocrisies of Dickens’ time, including child labour, the recruitment of children as criminals, and the plight of street children.
The film was released to a limited number of theaters but earned a generally good reception among the critics with most describing it as “visually exact and detailed without being too picturesque”.
Published in Daily Times, December 15th 2017.