2005 NYFF Good Night, and Good Luck Regular Lovers The Death of Mr. Lazarescu Methadonia L'Enfant (The Child) Avenge But One of My Two Eyes Bubble The Squid and the Whale I Am Capote Something Like Happiness Sympathy for Lady Vengeance Manderlay Tale of Cinema Breakfast on Pluto Through the Forest The President's Last Bang Who's Camus Anyway? Three Times Paradise Now Tristram Shandy Gabrielle The Sun The Passenger Cache (Hidden) Special Events Ticket Information Press Office		The 43rd New York Film Festival September 23 - October 9,2005 Sponsored by Sponsored by HSBC Private Bank, a division of HSBC USA, N.A., The New York Times, and Audi
			Something Like Happiness In the end, nobody gets what he or she wants in Bohdan Sláma’s marvelous, sprawling, humane new film—a kind of Coronation Street set amid the modern ugliness of a North Bohemian industrial neighborhood. Then again, would you expect anything less of a grimly funny Czech drama? And yet, in the end, settling for “something like” doesn’t seem so bad; it seems like life. As Sláma’s slice-of-ordinary saga begins, a young woman named Monika waves a tearful airport goodbye to her boyfriend heading off for America, while the couple’s pal and childhood friend, Tonik—the boy who really loves her, of course—stands by her side. Not quite a slacker but hardly a trailblazer, Tonik turns out to be a mensch and Monika a menschette—and the scenes in which they become substitute parents of two little kids are marvels of warm realism.  102 min. Czech Republic, 2005. * Director expected to attend. Click here for New York Times review and festival coverage. Shown with Truant (Michael Duignan, New Zealand, 2005, 15 min). For Evan, skipping school offers a much more exciting education. Click here to watch select short films from the 43rd New York Film Festival, available exclusively online at NYTimes.com