High Hopes

1988
PG
1h 48min

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Dans le Londres brumeux de la fin des années 1980, un jeune socialiste est désespéré par sa mère, ouvrière vieillissante et conservatrice, par ses amis snobs de la classe moyenne et par sa f... Tout lireDans le Londres brumeux de la fin des années 1980, un jeune socialiste est désespéré par sa mère, ouvrière vieillissante et conservatrice, par ses amis snobs de la classe moyenne et par sa femme qui ne pense qu'à fonder une famille.Dans le Londres brumeux de la fin des années 1980, un jeune socialiste est désespéré par sa mère, ouvrière vieillissante et conservatrice, par ses amis snobs de la classe moyenne et par sa femme qui ne pense qu'à fonder une famille.

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Récompenses
- 6 victoires et 6 nominations au total

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Anecdotes
Before High Hopes (1988), director Mike Leigh had made Bleak Moments (1971), released in 1971, and Meantime (1983), released in 1983. This gap in his filmography was attributable in part to his process for creating films: When he applied for financial backing, he did not yet have finished scripts, preferring to allow actors, once they were hired, to use improvisation sessions to create the dialogue. As a result, given the absence of a concrete script, many potential financial backers were reluctant to support Leigh's work. For "High Hopes," that spelled doom until the British TV station Channel 4 stepped in and partially funded it. The result is one of the most moving and engaging films of the 1980s and an early masterwork in Leigh's catalog.

Gaffes
After they come back from the opera, Lætitia sings the aria "La ci darem" to Rupert, which she claims was from the opera they just saw. They proceed to talk about the characters Susanna and Cherubino. However, these characters are from The Marriage of Figaro whereas the aria "La ci darem" is from Don Giovanni.

Citations
Rupert Boothe-Braine: Now... what made this country great was a place for everyone, and everyone in his place. And this is my place.

Connexions
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Chances Are/Paperhouse/The 'Burbs/Bert Rigby, You're a Fool/High Hopes (1989)

Bandes originales
Poor Man's Prison
(uncredited)
Written by Keith Colley and Knox Henderson

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8/10

More bleak moments

The title of Mike Leigh's first film was "Bleak Moments" and he's been having them, on and off, ever since. Leigh's films are the comedic equivalent of the Theatre of Cruelty. The pain running through a Mike Leigh movie far outweighs anything 'funny'. You wonder why they are called comedies at all. And the pain is usually the pain of belonging to a family unit. In "High Hopes" the family unit is Edna Dore's almost catatonic London pensioner, her appalling daughter Valerie and her equally appalling husband Martin and her son Cyril and his partner Shirley. Dore's next-door neighbours are a couple of Sloane Rangers with a double-barreled name and if Leigh has a fault it's that he can't help lampooning Valerie and Martin and the snooty neighbours. (Valerie is a clone of the awful Beverly in "Abigail's Party"). These are cartoon characters and they don't ring true.

However Dore, who does virtually nothing, is quietly magnificent as the mother whose life has evaporated in front of her eyes and Philip Davis and Ruth Sheen are heartbreakingly real as the socialist son and the woman he loves but not enough to give her the child she craves. Indeed, Davis and Sheen give the kind of performances that seem to transcend mere 'acting' and which in a just world would be showered with prizes. (Sheen and Dore did win European Film Awards). In fact, everyone is first-rate even the caricatured neighbours and the lamentable Valerie. An uneven work, then, but when Davis and Sheen are on screen it's as good as Leigh gets.