This moving film from Mike Leigh is an intimate, invigorating, and amusing portrait of a working-class famiIy in a suburb just north of London-an irrepressible mum and dad and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering Iayabout . In it, Leigh and his typicalIy briIIiant cast create, with extraordinary sensitivity and craft, a vivid, Iived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and meIanchoIy, Life Is Sweet is captivating, and it was Leigh's first internationaI sensation. |