Happy-Go-Lucky ( Happy Go Lucky ) [ NON-USA FORMAT PAL Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] for $14.94

Description: United Kingdom released PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ) WIDESCREEN (2.35:1) SPECIAL FEATURES: Behind the scenes Featurette Interactive Menu Making Of Scene Access Trailer(s) SYNOPSIS: If you know the British filmmaker Mike Leigh s work - early and later titles like Bleak 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 lens laughing and raging yearning for love 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 eternal fight against doom and gloom 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 overtly articulated or not also insistently vigorously left-leaning. The hard-working and often besieged characters who populate his stories live in worlds partly defined if not wholly circumscribed by ideology and the state. Nobody mounts a soapbox or whistles The Internationale in Happy-Go-Lucky but the film is so closely tuned to the pulse of communal life to the rhythms of how people work play and struggle together it captures the larger picture along 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: Berlin International Film Festival British Independent Film Awards European Film Awards ...Happy-Go-Lucky ( Happy Go Lucky )