Monthly series: the First Friday Film Series presents movies at the Piermont library on the 1st Friday of each month. Movies are FREE and open to the public.

May film: HAPPY-GO-LUCKY (2008), directed by Mike Leigh. Dubbed by one critic the British version of Amélie – come watch and you’ll know why. View the trailer.

HAPPY-GO-LUCKY is an exuberant, dazzlingly upbeat character study of a sunny 30-something single woman in London. Poppy (Sally Hawkins) lives her life to the fullest — in the real world, without any clichéd SEX AND THE CITY pretensions. Co-starring Eddie Marsan as a paranoid, rage-filled driving instructor who is Poppy’s ultimate foil — and with whom she has some extraordinarily complex and dazzlingly acted scenes in the front seats of her car. Whip-smart and full of wonderful surprises, this oddball movie from normally über-serious director Mike Leigh will make you blissfully happy!