Life Is SweetThis invigorating film from Mike Leigh was his first international sensation. Melancholy and funny by turns, it is an intimate portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of Londonan irrepressible mum and dad (Alison Steadman and Jim Broadbent) and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a troubled, ill-tempered layabout (Claire Skinner and Jane Horrocks). Leigh and his typically brilliant cast create, with extraordinary sensitivity and craft, a vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreamssuch as the... father's desire to open a food truckcarry enormous weight.DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURESNew, restored 2K digital film transfer, supervised by director of photography Dick Pope, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrackNew audio commentary featuring director Mike LeighAudio recording of a 1991 interview with Leigh at the National Film Theatre in LondonFive short films written and directed by Leigh for the proposed television series Five-Minute Films, with a new audio introduction by LeighEnglish subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearingPLUS: A new essay by critic David SterrittNew cover by Eric Skillman [show more]
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