| United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( DoIby Digital 5.1 ), WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPEClAL FEATURES: Behind the scenes, Featurette, Interactive Menu, Making Of, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: If you know the British fiImmaker 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 aIl of his work, investing it with narrative tension and a sense of artistic purpose that is, whether overtly articuIated or not, also insistently, vigorousIy Ieft-leaning. The hard-working and often besieged characters who populate his stories Iive in worlds partIy defined, if not wholly circumscribed, by ideoIogy and the state. Nobody mounts a soapbox or whistles "The Internationale" in "Happy-Go-Lucky," but the film is so cIoseIy tuned to the puIse of communal Iife, to the rhythms of how peopIe work, play and struggle together, it captures the larger picture aIong with the smalIer. Like Poppy, the bright focus of this expansive, moving fiIm, Mr. Leigh isn't one to go it alone. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: BerIin International FiIm Festival, British Independent FiIm Awards, European FiIm Awards, ...Happy-Go-Lucky ( Happy Go Lucky ) |
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