Life Is Sweet (1990)
Country: GB
Technical: col 103m
Director: Mike Leigh
Cast: Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Jane Horrocks, Timothy Spall, Stephen Rea, David Thewlis
Synopsis:
The lives of a suburban family in north London are centred on the daughters' growing pains and the economic fallout of the 80s recession.
Review:
Leigh again picks away at the scab of eighties British society in the aftermath of Thatcherism. Both Aubrey's entrepreneurial zeal and Nicola's rampant consumerism seem artfully pointed metaphors for what is wrong, and the ramifications for a dysfunctional family life. Which is to say that the film features perhaps his most pronounced cast of caricatures.
Country: GB
Technical: col 103m
Director: Mike Leigh
Cast: Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Jane Horrocks, Timothy Spall, Stephen Rea, David Thewlis
Synopsis:
The lives of a suburban family in north London are centred on the daughters' growing pains and the economic fallout of the 80s recession.
Review:
Leigh again picks away at the scab of eighties British society in the aftermath of Thatcherism. Both Aubrey's entrepreneurial zeal and Nicola's rampant consumerism seem artfully pointed metaphors for what is wrong, and the ramifications for a dysfunctional family life. Which is to say that the film features perhaps his most pronounced cast of caricatures.
Country: GB
Technical: col 103m
Director: Mike Leigh
Cast: Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Jane Horrocks, Timothy Spall, Stephen Rea, David Thewlis
Synopsis:
The lives of a suburban family in north London are centred on the daughters' growing pains and the economic fallout of the 80s recession.
Review:
Leigh again picks away at the scab of eighties British society in the aftermath of Thatcherism. Both Aubrey's entrepreneurial zeal and Nicola's rampant consumerism seem artfully pointed metaphors for what is wrong, and the ramifications for a dysfunctional family life. Which is to say that the film features perhaps his most pronounced cast of caricatures.