This weekend, Mike Leigh's 1990 comedy Life Is Sweet will screen at the Trylon microcinema in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as part of a monthlong retrospective of the director's early films. (criterion.com)
Akosua Adoma Owusu (b. 1984, Alexandria, VA) is a filmmaker with Ghanaian parentage whose films have screened worldwide in prestigious film festivals, museums, galleries, universities and microcinemas since 2005, including at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the London Film Festival, among others. (hammer.ucla.edu)
Mike Leigh's 1990 comedy Life Is Sweet, showing at the Trylon microcinema as part of a monthlong retrospective of the director's early films, presents an intimate portrait of working - class life in Thatcher - era north London. (criterion.com)