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Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)

Posted By: aleutian
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)

Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
Language - English | 1:53:55 | XviD 1385 kbits/s | 25 fps | 640x272 | AC3, 448 kbit/s | 1400 MB
Comedy | Optional subtitles: English, Spanish, Danish, Portuguese, Hebrew, Swedish, Polish, Norwegian, Greek, Finnish, Czech and Dutch.

Mike Leigh's direction along with the incredible charm of Sally Hawkins' "Poppy" character make up for a winning combination that will put a smile on everyone's face. Even Eddie Marsan's driving instructor from hell (a terrific performance!) is treated with understanding, respect and humanity, even if the character as such probably doesn't deserve it.

Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)


Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)


Unlike Vera Drake, Happy-Go-Lucky probably won’t pick up many awards. It’s not a film with a ‘big statement’ and it signals a return to Leigh’s low-key films in the Nineties, such as Life Is Sweet and, in particular, Career Girls. But whereas those two films were only intermittingly successful, Happy-Go-Lucky’s vivid, absorbing and truthful portrayal of thirtysomething London life shows how far Leigh has developed his craft over the past decade.

There’s also a sense that Leigh’s brand of compassionate realism has become more engaging as cinema and drama becomes overly negative about the human condition. A refusal to rise above the banal and mundane was always Leigh’s glaring weakness as a film maker. But when ordinary people’s everyday life and behaviour has become politicised and problematised, Leigh’s ringing endorsement of free individuals enjoying the good life in twenty-first century Britain has never been more welcome.