Life Is Sweet (1990)
Directed by Mike Leigh · Cinematography by Dick Pope
R103 min65 frames
ComedyDrama
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What is Life Is Sweet about?
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, Natalie is a plumber and Nicola is jobless. This film is about how they interact and play out family, conflict and love.
Life Is Sweet is a 1990 British comedy drama film directed by Mike Leigh, starring Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner, Jane Horrocks and Timothy Spall. Leigh's third cinematic film, it was his most commercially successful title at the time of release. A tragi-comic story, it follows the fortunes of a working-class North London family over a few weeks one summer.
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What does the cinematography of Life Is Sweet look like?
Across 65 sampled frames, Life Is Sweet builds its coverage from medium shots (54% of the sample), with close-ups (25%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Dick Pope keeps 62% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Daylight carries most of the picture. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 65% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1990s.
What is the color palette of Life Is Sweet?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Life Is Sweet (1990) are #312d2c, #d4cfca, #584f4b, #eeecea, #a99590, #95908f — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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