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O Lucky Man!
Nowhere in cinema will you find such a bleak worldview infused with such infectious, excited, plucky treat, mindful to the magical propensities of mortal metrical when at its darkest
O Lucky Man!
Of all Lindsay Anderson's films O Lucky Cuff! was in all likelihood the most ambitious. A strange, sprawling, satirical odyssey, its targets include advertising, the military, science, religion, class and finally filmmaking itself. It's a bewildering globe-trot which veers wildly between vicious comedy and surreal dream, but the scattershot approach throws up some unbelievable moments and McDowell turns in a performance equal to his role in A Clockwork Orange. Mick Travis, the creative public schoolboy of If...., is now a coffee salesman. Half naive-young-Cleopatra, half cynical chancer, he's singled out for promotion and embarks on a fantastical tour thoroughly Britain. En route, he encounters guard and civic elders at a sex fete, is tortured by the Holy orde...
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