Happy-Go-Lucky
2008, dir. Mike Leigh; star. Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsam
1 hour 57 min
Steph and I saw Happy-Go-Lucky Saturday night at a packed house at the Bytowne. We split a popcorn and diet pepsi.
Happy-Go-Lucky, as the title suggests, is a upbeat (Steph felt TOO upbeat) film about a 30 year old woman named Poppy living in London working as a kindergarten teacher. Nothing seems to bother this woman much, and she manages to stay happy ALL THE TIME. Really, it's kind of disturbing. Sally Hawkins is pretty good as Poppy, and Eddie Marsam plays her disgruntled (and blatantly racist) driving instructor.
This film was definitely less of a downer that Miek Leigh's last film, Vera Drake, which was about a woman giving out illegal abortions during World War II in England.
4 stars out fo 5
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