http://minnesotaindependent.com News. Politics. Media. Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:22:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://minnesotaindependent.com/12463/mnindy-pick-free-screening-of-mike-leighs-life-is-sweet http://minnesotaindependent.com/12463/mnindy-pick-free-screening-of-mike-leighs-life-is-sweet#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:58:24 +0000 Chris Steller http://minnesotaindependent.com/?p=12463 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…]]> 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.

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