England,
1981, 90 min
Shown in 1986
CREDITS
- dir
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Mike Leigh
- prod
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Louis Marks
- cam
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Remi Adefarasin
- cast
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Eric Richard, Timothy Spall
- source
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BBC-TV, London
- premiere
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U.S. Premiere
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COMMENTS
Part of the Discovering Mike Leigh program. Mike Leigh in person.
OTHER
Home Sweet Home, Leigh’s melancholy variation on “Postman’s Knock” centers on three postmen whose domestic lives on a suburban estate are more loosely (and painfully) entangled than they realize. Home Sweet Home has been described by Clive James as “the most daring raid on the inarticulate yet.”
–National Film Theatre, London
FACTOID #343
Director Sally Potter was the first person to be honored with the Festival’s Satyajit Ray Award. In 1993 she was interviewed onstage and her new film Orlando was screened. In 2005, she turned the tables by interviewing Peter J. Owens Award recipient Joan Allen.
