Review of Life Is Sweet (1991) by Franz D — 30 Jan 2011

Since he is writer director he has to take full.

Responsibility for every little line of text, for.

The tiniest detail, however stupid it may be; for.

The "brilliance" e. g. of Timothy Spall's rainbow.

Colored underwear and Jane Harrock's "meaningful".

Choclate perversion.

This is the world according to Mike Leigh, and if.

The "real" world is not quite like this, it is his.

Fault, ours, because we want to believe in it,.

Because we look so "good" in it.

A world of working class "kitsch", a world of.

Endless "good-natured"ism that can do no harm,.

Where the "roughness" of manners is the "obvious".

Indication of its inner purity and perfection.

Aubrey fails, because he tries to cross class.

Boundaries. Nicola, the artist, struggles to find.

Her role in society, she will become what Mike.

Leigh has become, a morally unblemished artist,.

True to his working roots.

Mike Leigh tends to let his actors overdo their.

"acting" so much as to stretch their roles into.

Comic book like characters that become larger than.

Life, that can neither change nor die nor be.

Harmed.

Eventually, of course, he breaks these molds, just.

For a moment, only for the purpose of.

Reestablishing the "god, Mike Leigh-given" order,.

Once again.

PS.

An additional question for Mike Leigh-"scholars",.

Why do we see Andy at work, but never working,.

Why do we see no television set?