Life Is Sweet/Dvd, Criterion Collection, DVD
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Alison Steadman, All, Claire Skinner, Comedy, Criterion Collection, David Neilsen, David Neilson, David Thewlis, Drama, Harriet Thorpe, Jack Thorpe Baker, Jane Horrocks, Jim Broadbent, Mike Leigh, Movies, Movies & TV › Movies, Moya Brady, Rachel Portman, Simon Channing-Williams, Stephen Rea, Timothy SpallThis moving film from Mike Leigh (TOPSY-TURVY) is an intimate, invigorating, and amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London an irrepressible mum and dad (Alison Steadman and Jim Broadbent) and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering lay-about (Claire Skinner and Jane Horrocks). in it, Leigh and his typically brilliant cast create, with extra, ordinary sensitivity and craft, a vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father's desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy, LIFE IS SWEET is captivating, and it was Leigh's first international sensation.
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