May
15th - Happy-Go-Lucky (15)
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priced at £2.50 and £2.00 concessions.
All shows start at 7.30pm on Fridays in the
Bishop Greaves Theatre, Bishop Grosseteste University College, Longdales Road, Lincoln
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Next Showing
May 15th
Happy-Go-Lucky (15)
7.30pm
Sponsor: Dale & Co. - Solicitors
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. With its present-day realist
setting making it closest to 'Secrets and Lies' or 'Career Girls', pithy comedy-drama
'Happy-Go-Lucky' is in a lighter register than most Leigh films, but the content
is as psychologically and dramatically rich as ever.
Poppy, an irrepressibly good-humoured London primary school teacher,
has a gift for making the most of life, whether it's clubbing with her moody
sister Suzy and flatmate Zoe, or researching bird life for the classroom.
While seemingly unable to take anything seriously, at work Poppy is committed
and compassionate, and knows just how to intervene to help one of her young
pupils - thereby hitting it off with simpatico social worker Tim.
However, this being a Leigh film, life's darker side is never far from the surface.
more info
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Film at the Lincoln Drill Hall
Alongside Lincoln Drill Hall's year round programme of performing arts events, the venue also screens an occasional and eclectic film programme on DVD projection, that compliments the Film Society's programme and that of other venues around the city. The full Drill Hall programme can be found at the Drill Hall website