This time, Ashley chooses HAPPY-GO-LUCKY and it’s a Mike Leigh rematch!
Long ago on Ep.8, Dave chose Leigh’s NAKED (1993), which featured male characters so repellent that Ashley found the entire viewing experience to be extremely unpleasant.
Now six years later, we discuss a Mike Leigh film she adores, longtime favorite HAPPY-GO-LUCKY, a seemingly lighthearted comedy simmering with tension and darkness. Sally Hawkins gives a brilliant, compulsively watchable performance as Poppy, a cheerful, free-spirited schoolteacher whose big heart and impulsive nature lead her straight into a series of unsettling encounters that her unshakeable sense of humor may not able to deliver her from.
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