MnIndy pick: Free screening of Mike Leigh’s ‘Life Is Sweet’

Anyone relying exclusively on MnIndy for nightlife recommendations hasn’t been out on the town since the Plastic People of the Universe performed here a month ago. In the interim the economic sky has fallen, so what could be better than a free movie? Tonight, it’s British director Mike Leigh’s 1991 film ”Life Is Sweet” at the Walker Art Center (7:30 p.m.), in which the central character, a corrosively cynical bulimic, applies this timely epithet to everyone and everything: “Capitalist!”  If a filmmaker who spent his career (“Naked,” “Secrets & Lies,” “Vera Drake”) putting ordinary people’s economic and emotional pain on the silver screen can make a comedy called “Life is Sweet,” you can bloody well drag yourself to it. Trailers here, Roger Ebert’s review here. The area premiere of Leigh’s new film, “Happy-Go-Lucky” (another upbeat title), plays Saturday, and Leigh himself speaks Oct. 15 as part of his retrospective at the Walker — but both cost money.