LIFE IS SWEET/BD

This 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 fathers 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 Leighs first international sensation.

This 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.