O Lucky Man! (Anderson, 1973): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 7.20pm
This presentation is part of the Lindsay Anderson season (full details here) at BFI Southbank. Information about the other screenings of this film on May 12th and 18th can be found here.
Chicago Reader review:
The
gradations of sham and corruption and the quirky contours of modern
society, as revealed in the epic wanderings of Lindsay Anderson's modern
Candide/Everyman (Malcolm McDowell). Mick Travers (now Travis), the
vicious public school of If . . . behind
him, learns the bitter lesson of how to play the game for all it may
(or may not) be worth in this valiant, comic, yet quietly sad three-hour
journey to a kind of wisdom. Fuzzy in its particulars, the film makes
up for it with standout performances from Ralph Richardson, Rachel
Roberts, and Arthur Lowe.
Don Druker
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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