Happy-Go-Lucky - 2008 - 6/10

Elementary school teacher, Poppy, laughs with friends and starts taking driving lessons.
Everything is a joke to her. She smirks, giggles, pops everyone’s “serious balloon.”
When others try to stress a point (as in a lesson) she makes monkey faces and belittling comments.
Unctuous, supercilious, 30 year old Poppy lingers as a perpetual thirteen year old.
Very much the female equivalent of Mr. Poppy from the Nativity franchise.
Sally Hawkins terrific in this, as I have known actual souls like her character (in their 30’s - 70’s).
Eternal juveniles.
This film seems embraced by optimists and the ever-hopeful.