Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, 1991 Life Is Sweet was Mike Leigh’s third film for cinema in the first two decades of a directing career spent primarily in television and the theatre. The script, ...

Noted for his film style in which the commonplace is often tinged with the extraordinary, filmmaker Mike ... "Life is Sweet" (1991), and "Secrets and Lies" (1996). With his highly personal ...

More than 15 years ago, the great British director Mike Leigh made “Happy-Go-Lucky ... electrically performed dramas as “Life Is Sweet” and “Secrets & Lies,” the latter of which ...

Biography: Mike Leigh, OBE is an English film and theatre ... Some of his well-known films include Life is Sweet (1990), the Gilbert and Sullivan biography Topsy Turvy (1999), and the bleak ...