Landmark Sunshine
143 E Houston St
212.330.8182
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Happy Go Lucky
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Oct 10, 2008 – Dec 7, 2008
Daily
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- Price
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$11
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British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but he truly excels when he places women front and center, as with 2004's Vera Drake, a treatise on a mid-century abortionist. His latest film paints another female study — albeit one in rose rather than somber greys. Schoolteacher Poppy (Sally Hawkins) is a lemonade-from-lemons sort, whose solution to having her bike stolen is to sign up for driving lessons. Well-paced and giddily funny, Happy-Go-Lucky makes a compelling distinction between genuine kindness and a relentless need to please by interrogating how Poppy's unassailable cheer manifests in male-versus-female contexts.
