甜蜜回忆：迈克·李回顾《生活是甜蜜的》

TRAWL THROUGH THE trivia section of the IMDb’s page on Mike Leigh’s 1990 domestic drama Life Is Sweet and you’ll be confronted by a remarkable claim: it is, apparently, “Mike Leigh’s least favourite of his own films”. Surely this can’t be true? The affectingly tragicomic tale of a working-class family living in the outer North London suburb of Enfield, it doubled down on the international success of High Hopes to pave the way for Leigh’s glorious output during the ’90s, including the Palme d’Or-winning Naked and the Oscar-nominated Secrets & Lies. …