Life Is Sweet (1991)
Directed by Mike Leigh
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, Natalie is a plumber and Nicola is jobless. This film is about how they interact and play out family, conflict and love.
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That doesn’t mean that movies can’t tackle the psychology, but with only a few exceptions (e.g., the English writer-director Mike Leigh’s 1990 film Life Is Sweet , which depicts a young, working-class bulimic woman), films about eating disorders take the form of hokey, know-the-symptoms public service pamphlets aimed at teens.
When Ellen secretly investigates—perhaps expecting a stash of chocolate bars like those similarly hidden, gorged on, and purged by Jane Horrocks’s bulimic Nicola in Life Is Sweet (1990)—she recoils: it is a barf bag.
Audiences may best remember Spall as the quiet, decent family man in "Secrets & Lies" or the foolish gourmet in "Life Is Sweet," but he's also good in loud, disruptive roles.
At times, it seems like a feel-good version of film by British director Mike Leigh ("Life Is Sweet," "Secrets and Lies"), who uses a similar technique to allow his actors to get inside their roles.
However, whereas comedies such as Life is Sweet and High Hopes showed Leigh's whimsical side, Naked is anything but charming.
We may remember Thewlis from his bit in Leigh's "Life Is Sweet" as bulemic Jane Horrocks' beleaguered boyfriend.
Leigh has said in an interview that while his earlier films (including " High Hopes " and " Life Is Sweet ") might have embodied a socialist view of the world, this one edges over into anarchy.
Leigh ("High Hopes," "Life Is Sweet") is justly famous for the performances he inspires.
Leigh is an interesting director, as he showed in his breakout film "Life Is Sweet."
The result, as recent works like "High Hopes" and "Life Is Sweet" testify, are films that cut deeper and go further in terms of character development while providing more opportunities for actors to astonish than anything else on the screen today.