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"Poppy, the cheerful, bubbly young Londoner who is the protagonist of Leigh's character study, is the sort of person we rarely see profiled in films: an ordinary person who is perfectly happy. The loosely sketched plot builds as Poppy (Sally Hawkins) enters into a series of weekly driving lesson with the extremely uptight Scott (Eddie Marsan). He is flummoxed by Poppy's blitheness, as she is by his lack of good humor. But Poppy is no caricature; she is not vapid, naive or flighty. Her strength is her optimism, and it's what infuses all the banal and even shadowy corners of her life with, if not light, than at least hope. Leigh suggests that her greatest sadness is acknowledging that every life can not be as happy (or lucky) as hers; worst of all, to Poppy, are those lives crippled by self-imposed negativity. A few of life's wholly normal pains aside, Leigh's unironic film is a sunny endeavor and full of light humor -- from Poppy's dreadful puns and nonsense phrases, to her roommate's wry sarcastic observations and Scott's compulsive and bizarre driver-training methods. This season is already full of gloom: Winter's coming, politics have stretched everyone's last nerve, the economy is ailing. Two hours with the bracingly optimistic Poppy may be just the tonic. [3 out of 4 stars]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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