The Auteurs
Happy-Go-Lucky
Film Info

United Kingdom

2007

118 Min.

Cast & Credits

DIR Mike Leigh

PROD Simon Channing-Williams

SCR Mike Leigh

DP Dick Pope

CAST Sally Hawkins, Alexis Zegerman, Eddie Marsan

Excerpt

The adventures of Poppy. Is she perhaps a little crazy and irresponsible? Or is she in fact deeply sane and sensible? Either way, everybody falls in love with her, for better or for worse…

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Jonathan 7:24pm November 16th, 2008
"Happy-Go-Lucky" is a film that is energetically fun from beginning to end, but thought-provoking as well. Like Mike Leigh's 1999 film, "Topsy-Turvey," the film's theme centers on personal happiness or un-happiness in the face of tragedy. In "Happy-Go-Lucky," Poppy's sheer joy and unflagging optimism is contrasted with her antagonists' unfortunate circumstances and their subsequent dour attitudes. The movie starts off slow and is hampered by a score that reminds one of a low-budget BBC TV show. But stick it out--by the end of the film the seemingly mundane details of Poppy's life come together to forge a subtle, but powerful, emotional effect.
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