O Lucky Man!
1973
*****
Director: Lindsay Anderson
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts, Arthur Lowe, Helen Mirren, Graham Crowden, Dandy Nichols
Mick Travis starts as a coffee salesman in the North East, and in the end of this incredible 3-hour story he auditions for a Lindsay Anderson film O Lucky Man!. The journey inbetween offers stunning surrealistic twists and turns as Mick is thrown around like a pawn in a game. All of this is interspersed with songs performed on-screen by Alan Price. This ia an ambitious, totally unique, and thoroughly enjoyable film, which offers scathing commentary on capitalism. Several of the leading actors play multiple roles.