Life is Sweet Blu-ray

'Life is Sweet' Director: Mike Leigh (1990) Criterion Collection Blu-ray | DOP-supervised 2K transfer 

This 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 London - an irrepressible mum and dad and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a troubled, ill-tempered layabout.

Leigh and his typically brilliant cast create, with extraordinary sensitivity and craft, 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.

Starring Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall, Claire Skinner, Jane Horrocks, David Thewlis and Stephen Rea.

Special features include:
- New audio commentary featuring director Mike Leigh
- Audio recording of a 1991 interview with Leigh at the National Film Theatre in London
- Five short films written and directed by Leigh for the proposed television series Five-Minute Films, with a new audio introduction by Leigh
- Essay by critic David Sterritt