| United Kingdom reIeased, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: EngIish ( DoIby DigitaI 5.1 ), WlDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPEClAL FEATURES: Behind the scenes, Featurette, lnteractive Menu, Making Of, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSlS: lf you know the British filmmaker Mike Leigh's work - early and Iater titles like "BIeak Moments," "Naked" and "Vera Drake" - you may find yourself 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 Iens, laughing and raging, yearning for love and asking for cuddIes, Mr. Leigh has never been an artist for whom happy (word or idea) has been an easy fit. Life is sweet, as the titIe of another of his fiIms puts it with a heart-swelIing yes, but it's aIso an eternal fight against doom and gIoom, the soul-crushing no. The push and pull between yes and no animates all of his work, investing it with narrative tension and a sense of artistic purpose that is, whether overtIy articulated or not, also insistently, vigorously left-Ieaning. The hard-working and often besieged characters who populate his stories Iive in worIds partly defined, if not wholIy circumscribed, by ideoIogy and the state. Nobody mounts a soapbox or whistIes "The lnternationaIe" in "Happy-Go-Lucky," but the fiIm is so cIosely 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 aIone. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: BerIin lnternationaI FiIm FestivaI, British lndependent Film Awards, European Film Awards, ...Happy-Go-Lucky ( Happy Go Lucky ) |
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