Review of Life Is Sweet (Mike Leigh)

From The Late Show in 1992, Sarah Dunant chairs a panel including House Of Cards writer Michael Dobbs, that reviews Mike Leigh's film Life Is Sweet, starring Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent and Jane Horrocks.

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Entertainment

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• Life Is Sweet
• Mike Leigh
• The Late Show
• Sarah Dunant
• Michael Dobbs
• Alison Steadman
• Jim Broadbent
• Stephen Rea
• Jane Horrocks
• cinema
• film
• review
• movies
• Timothy Spall

[cryingonion2]

The presenter has the same glasses as Aubrey!

[MickeyLove01]

These pretentious people have no idea what they're talking about, although they are arrogant enough to assume they do.....

[parannoyance]

Leigh is an innovative and stimulating director but he wades into presenting caricature of working class but then you see Piers - a pompous public school prick -,well,another caricature so perhaps he's onto something. But without him,British film would be so much duller than it is already and he does it with passion and love .

[dermotoblong]

middle class intellectuals. pompous and self satisfied (especially that bloke with the glasses on)

[runforthehills707]

@MickeyLove01 Fair enough

[MickeyLove01]

@runforthehills707 Let me just put you right. I was referring to some of the people who had been making comments at the time, not the tv presenters discussing the film. I wouldn't have any interest in listening to those talking about the film.

[runforthehills707]

@MickeyLove01 or perhaps they're just having a discussion and giving their opinion?

[runforthehills707]

Jane Horrocks and Timothy Spall's characters just do not work in this. They're trying too hard and the accents are awful.

[tulscity]

The interviewer is wearing Aubrey's glasses

[telebob]

These 'critics' are such wonderful cliches. This is almost a SNL sketch... unfortunately there is no punch line. These people are hysterical... in a low key sense of course. And now back to Lord Twombly and his tuba recital. (Do you like our glasses?}