Another Mike Leigh absolute masterclass
Leigh inverts HAPPY GO LUCKY into a portrait of profound misery, creating a pungently unpleasant film that also happens to be hilarious and heartbreaking in equal measure, like an episode of CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM without any of the dramatic irony.
Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives another incredible performance, and shoutout to Tuwaine Barrett as the beleaguered son Moses for one of the best near mute performances often recent years
Maybe my most controversial take of the year but this so absolutely did not work for me.
The PoV conceit felt radically alienating and in no way did I find that engaging or thought provoking; it just made all the dialogue and acting feel stilted. All I could picture was the poor actors having to act staring straight down the barrel of a huge camera.
There are moments of beauty and the moments of historical weight do land but as…
I avoided watching this movie for so long knowing it would trigger me and it still managed to top my worst expectations.
Between the clumsy “I took one semester of contemporary playwrighting” script, the maudlin directing, and, hate to say it, the over the top Fraser performance that feels like a Tropic Thunder bit, it’s even worse than I thought.
For this to be the only movie about obesity to make it into the mainstream in a country with a…
