Life is sweet
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| German title | Life is sweet |
| Original title | Life is sweet |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1991 |
| length | 109 (abridged 98) minutes |
| Age rating | FSK without Al. |
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| Director | Mike Leigh |
| script | Mike Leigh |
| production | Simon Channing-Williams |
| music | Rachel Portman |
| camera | Dick Pope |
| cut | Jon Gregory |
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Life is Sweet (alternate title: Das sweet Leben , Das Leben istweet , Life is sweet ) is a British tragic comedy from 1991 . Directed by Mike Leigh , who is also specified as a screenwriter.
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The married couple Wendy and Andy live in London . They have two daughters, the twins Natalie and Nicola, who are both just over 20 years old. Andy works in a food factory and hates his job. Natalie makes no parenting problems, while Nicola is considered unadjusted. Nicola raves about the ideas of Marxism and feminism . She has a lover who shows understanding for her behavior.
Family friend Aubrey opens a French restaurant where Wendy gets a part-time job. The restaurant becomes unsuccessful. Aubrey and Wendy wait for guests inside and get drunk.
Reviews
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on December 24, 1991 that Mike Leigh works in a unique way: he gathers the actors who would improvise and work on the script for weeks and months. The film contains more humor and more sharpness than most scriptwriters would dare. It is one of the best films of the year. The film is as " funny, spontaneous and free " as if it had been produced by a millionaire for fun and shows which films can be made without the constraints of the usual production process.
Cinema magazine wrote that the film was "a social satire on Britain's petty bourgeoisie " and a " shrill attack on 'lauded' Thatcherism ".
Awards
Jane Horrocks won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1991 . Mike Leigh won the Danish Bodil in 1992 and was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award . The film won in 1992 as a British film of the year the London Critics Circle Film Award . Alison Steadman, Jane Horrocks and Best Picture won the 1992 US National Society of Film Critics Award .
backgrounds
The film was shot in Enfield , London . Its world premiere took place on September 11, 1991 at the Toronto International Film Festival . The film grossed approximately $ 1.5 million in US cinemas .
Web links
- Life is Sweet in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Life is Sweet at Rotten Tomatoes (English)