Life is Sweet Abbas Kiarostami Made in Poland: Expertly crafted

Made in Poland: Expertly crafted with premium European workmanship

Luis Buñuel’s final film brings full circle the director’s lifelong preoccupation with the darker side of desire

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Life is Sweet Abbas Kiarostami Made in Poland: Expertly craftedThis 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 Londonan irrepressible mum and dad (Alison Steadman and Jim Broadbent) and their night and day twins, a bookish good girl and a troubled, ill tempered layabout (Claire Skinner and Jane Horrocks). Leigh and his typically brilliant cast create, with extraordinary