Life is sweet [videorecording] / Film Four International and British Screen present a Thin Man Films production ; produced by Simon Channing-Williams ; written and directed by Mike Leigh.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
Director approved Blu-ray special ed.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([18] p. : col. ill. ; 16 cm.)
Probation. Birth of the goalie of the 2001 F.A. cup final. Old chums. Light snack. Afternoon.
Notes:
Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall, Claire Skinner, Jane Horrocks, David Thewlis, Moya Brady, Stephen Rea. Originally released as a motion picture in 1990. Special features: Commentary (featuring director Mike Leigh recorded in 2013); Mike Leigh at the National Film Theatre (interview with director); Five minute films (five short films written and directed by Mike Leigh in 1975): Probation, The birth of the goalie of the 2001 F.A. cup final, Old chums, A light snack, Afternoon; new restored 2K digital film transfer supervised by the director of photography; booklet featuring an essay by critic David Sterritt.
Summary:
An amusing portrait of a working-class family 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 lay about. 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.
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