The saddest comedy I’ve ever seen.
Reminded me of ‘A Lady of Letters’ by Alan Bennet, but ten times bleaker.
Depression is often romanticised in film. Here, Leigh shows us its ugliness, with unrelenting focus.
Pansy sees the worst in everything and everyone. She’s the definition of a glass-half-empty person. At first, this is played for laughs.
There are six set pieces in this film (that I can remember) where Pansy gets into a major conflict thanks to her own…
