Happy-Go-Lucky is, at long last, British writer-director Mike Leigh’s bright, shiny “Have a Nice Day” button of a movie about a cockeyed optimist in contemporary times. It begs the question, “Could Candide cut it in this cynical, depressed world?”all the time?” That girl is a 30-year-old, perpetually pert primary schoolteacher in North London named Poppy Cross.The Sound of Music isn’t your kind of movie—but stick with it because she’s right and you’re wrong. Vera Drake), an economically strapped and trapped cabbie (Timothy Spall in All or Nothing) and an abuse-spewing drifter from Manchester (David Thewlis in Naked).Happy-Go-Lucky or a happy-go-lucky Leigh—and that was profoundly true of followers of the New York Film Festival where, like five previous Leighs (including High Hopes, Secrets & Lies and Topsy-Turvy), it received its official U.S. launching prior to its Miramax release. Many of the press here were suspicious of the happy face Leigh was putting on, if not irked by Poppy’s Cheer Concentrate.I don’t think she is relentlessly sunny,” Leigh argued back at the festival every time the word “irritating” came up (which was frequently). “That’s a misreading of the film. She doesn’t irritate me. I’m mystified by people who say they’re irritated by… Read full this story
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