Hello, Gentile readers, welcome to another Sunday morning movie! Today we present life is sweet, a strangely lovely story of a few weeks in the life of a British working class family in the 1990s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehgflgttyty
Reviews:
The criteria collection writes
This vigorizing Mike Leight movie was his first international sensation. Melancholia and fun in turn, it is an intimate portrait of a working class family in a suburb just north of London, an irrepressible mother and dad (Alison Steadman and Jim Broadbent) and their night and day, a good book girl, a girl books, a girl books. Skinner and Jane Horths). Leigh and his typically brilliant cast believe, with extraordinary sensitivity and trade, a vivid and living story of ordinary existence, in which a modest dreams such as the father’s desire to open a huge weight of a food truck.
A reviewer in Letterboxd writes:
What a beautiful slice of life. It is impressive how the family is represented as direct and honest, but the underlying drama is how one of them maintains a dark part of their life in secret. It culminates in an argument that is not so much an argument as an angry expression of love and, nevertheless, it never loses its advantage and realism. It is slightly dumb, but never unreal. So genuine that it hurts. I loved it.
I discovered that life is sweet to be pleasant, but definitely a deviation from my usual tastes. It is not that there is anything wrong with that, I am generally not interested in the “Life Port” rate. The various comings and goings, actions and sayings of the characters are fun and convincing … already confused. It made much more sense to me when I knew that the director, Mike Leigh, creates his films by allowing collective improvisation. The apparent dear of the film became a lovely spontaneity.
Mike Leigh (born February 20, 1943) is a popular independent filmmaker and has a professional tension over 60 years old. He has worked as a screenwriter, producer, director and briefly as an actor in Theater, Television and Cinema. Leigh has won several film awards and won seven nominations for the Academy Awards. In 1993 he was admitted in the order of the British Empire and in 2014 he recovered a BAFTA scholarship.
Director: Mike Leigh
Notable actors: none
Spoilers!
Synopsis:
History is a set in a working class suburb of working class where Wendy and Andy (Alison Steadman and Jim Broadbent) live with their twin daughter Natalie and Nicola (Claire Skinner and Jane Hatchs).
These daughters are polar opposites. Nicola, a waif with a show that smokes cigarettes, suffers from bulimia and enjoys a soft sexual food fetish, is grumpy and negative. On the other hand, Natalie is a working plumber with a cheerful disposition and a sense of dry humor.
Andy is an executive chef in a catering room and has been installed in the role of a middle -aged father with an inclination for the bear and the dream of working for himself one day. For the shock and fun of his wife Wendy, he buys and the mobile Hot Dog stop a friend and image in themselves who work football and the like. Wendy is critical, but he realizes that Andy must have his dreams, even if they are unlikely to develop. Those dreams are even more push when Andy tropates with a spoon at work and breaks his leg.
At the same time, a family friend opens a crackpot version of a French restaurant and hires Wendy to act as a waitress. The first night is a disaster, since it has forgotten to announce the place and nobody appears. The friend gets drunk and puts the movements on Wendy, who rules it and heads home, leaving him a drunk pool on the floor.
But the movie has a serious side. Nicola is convinced that he is fat and ugly. The cheerful behavior of her sister and the firm understanding of her life depress her when she realizes that her life is a disaster.
Wendy faces Nicola about her behavior. Nicola tries to download her on her mother, but Wendy turns the table and angry points out that the family loves her. The scene ends with Nicola crying, wiser. Life is sweet ends with the sisters who speak with each other on the rear porch. Natalie sacrifices Nicola some money to help her and Nicola, disappointing her defenses for the first time, she accepts.
