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indiewire.com - 10/20/2008
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by Erica Abeel (October 7, 2008) In the
opening scenes of " Happy-Go-Lucky ," Poppy, a thirty-year-old...
teacher dressed in flea market duds and fishnet stockings, pedals through London dispensing cheer -- then ends up getting her bike stolen. ...
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indieWIRE INTERVIEW | "Happy-Go-Lucky" Director Mike Leigh
getthebigpicture.net - 10/24/2008
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Mike Leigh's latest film only resembles his more
recent work is its size. The outlook here is...
positively bright and sunny, as you'd expect from a movie called 'Happy-Go-Lucky.' Leigh is on his game as usual and Sally Hawkins lives up to the hype of an Oscar nomination.
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Movie Review - 'Happy-Go-Lucky'
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Mike Leigh Tells It Like It Is & Early Reviews of “Quantum of Solace” Suggest More Bond Gold
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... ” to 3D. The entire interview is a great read, but Brevet’s first few questions or rather Mike Leigh’s answers to them got my attention because he illuminates something I’ve been saying often in many a corner of the internet to people who thought his protagonist, Poppy, to be a borderline retarded adult. I have no problem with people simply not being taken with her, but for those who just don’t get her at all, you’re dumb . Mike Leigh’s words, not mine, but I was thinking it. [ Rope of Silicon ] Brevet : Several critics have voiced a negative reaction toward Poppy and perceive ...
A 'Happy-Go-Lucky' Director? Mike Leigh Still Thinks You're Retarded
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... Rop of Sillycons: Several critics have have voiced a negative reaction toward ["Happy-Go-Lucky" protagonist] Poppy [Sally Hawkins] and perceive her as a blindly happy person, but I didn't see it that way at all and have a hard time believing that was your intention. ...
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Happy-Go-Lucky Review
movieblog.ugo.com 10/11/2008 — It’s easy to take a reductive view of Mike Leigh’s latest, Happy-Go-Lucky, not least because of its deceptively colorful, light-hearted surface. I’ve never considered Leigh much of a visual stylist, but his widescreen work here with frequent ...
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screendaily.com 11/30/2008 — Dir: Mike Leigh. US/UK. 2007 118mins. Mike Leigh has created more than his share of stressed and depressed characters, but his latest film takes on one of the toughest challenges in contemporary drama - creating a character who is genuinely happy. ...
"Happy-Go-Lucky"
salon.com 10/11/2008 — Sally Hawkins gives the finest performance of the year in Mike Leigh's intimate masterpiece.
Movie Trailers - Happy Go Lucky
apple.com 10/9/2008 — Just how hard is it to be happy? In the effervescent new comedy from writer/director Mike Leigh ( Vera Drake, Secrets & Lies ), Sally Hawkins stars as Poppy, an irrepressibly free-spirited school teacher who brings an infectious laugh and an ...
Simon Channing Williams, producer of Mike Leigh films, dies aged 63
guardian.co.uk 4/14/2009 — He produced Mike Leigh's critically acclaimed films from High Hopes to Happy-Go-Lucky, and was awarded one of Kenya's highest honours for his work on The Constant Gardener Simon Channing Williams, the British film producer best known for his ...
Toronto and NYFF. Happy-Go-Lucky.
daily.greencine.com 9/30/2008 — "On the outskirts of Mike Leigh 's blissful Happy-Go-Lucky [ site ] lie child abusers, stalkers and supremacists, homeless, hairy troglodytes, school bullies, back problems, driving perils, and a series of crumbling relationships no amount of ...
Sally Hawkins: Celebrities
wmagazine.com 10/13/2008 — When Sally Hawkins showed up for her first day of work on Happy-Go-Lucky , the latest film from English director Mike Leigh, there were a few crucial things she wasn t aware of, such as what the movie was about, who else was in it, and whether she ...
Sally Hawkins Golightly
awardsdaily.com 10/13/2008 —
Happy-Go-Lucky’s Holly Golightly, Sally Hawkins gets a glowing profile in W this month :
As Poppy, an irrepressibly bubbly and optimistic London schoolteacher, Hawkins turns what could have been the most annoying character in the ...
National Society of Film Critics Honor 'Bashir,' 'Happy-Go-Lucky'
getthebigpicture.net 1/4/2009 — The last major group of film critics has awarded its 2008 honors, with the National Society of Film Critics going heavily against the grain, picking 'Waltz with Bashir' the year's best picture, and giving the most trophies to Mike Leigh's character comedy, 'Happy-Go-Lucky'.
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