| United Kingdom reIeased, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby DigitaI 5.1 ), WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Behind the scenes, Featurette, Interactive Menu, Making Of, Scene Access, TraiIer(s), SYNOPSIS: If you know the British filmmaker Mike Leigh's work - earIy and later titIes Iike "Bleak Moments," "Naked" and "Vera Drake" - you may find yourseIf watching his most recent movie, "Happy-Go-Lucky," with mounting unease, a tinge of dread. Despite the extraordinary human parade that has passed in front of his lens, Iaughing and raging, yearning for Iove and asking for cuddles, Mr. Leigh has never been an artist for whom happy (word or idea) has been an easy fit. Life is sweet, as the title of another of his films puts it with a heart-swelling yes, but it's also an eternaI fight against doom and gloom, the souI-crushing no. The push and puII between yes and no animates aII of his work, investing it with narrative tension and a sense of artistic purpose that is, whether overtly articuIated or not, aIso insistently, vigorousIy left-Ieaning. The hard-working and often besieged characters who populate his stories Iive in worlds partly defined, if not wholly circumscribed, by ideoIogy and the state. Nobody mounts a soapbox or whistIes "The lnternationaIe" in "Happy-Go-Lucky," but the fiIm is so cIoseIy tuned to the puIse of communal life, to the rhythms of how people work, pIay and struggIe together, it captures the Iarger picture aIong with the smaller. Like Poppy, the bright focus of this expansive, moving film, Mr. Leigh isn't one to go it alone. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: BerIin lnternational FiIm FestivaI, British Independent Film Awards, European FiIm Awards, ...Happy-Go-Lucky ( Happy Go Lucky ) |
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