The Mike Leigh method in a brighter mode, about a happy go lucky teacher called Poppy (Sally Hawkins) who is always smiling and laughing. I’ve met lots of girls like her – they always go out with dipshits and presumably that’s in Poppy’s back story somewhere which Leigh developed over a year or whatever he did. Despite all this work that he puts in some times the performances are a bit off.
No real story, just a collection of incidents – Poppy learns how to drive (the excellent Eddie Marsden, the best thing about the movie, unless you’re captivated by Sally Hawkins), runs into a homeless man, takes flamenco lessons, gets a boyfriend. Some of it is well done, but after a while I admit I got a bit bored.
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