Bill Nighy gives a brilliant performance as a veteran civil servant suffering from a fatal illness, in this remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru.
Living in London in 1952, Mr Williams (Nighy) has become a small cog in the bureaucracy of rebuilding England after World War Two. As endless paperwork piles up on his desk, he learns that he has a fatal illness and embarks on a quest to find some meaning in his seemingly grey and monotonous life before it slips away. Befriending his young co-worker Margaret (Aimee-Lou Wood), he begins to find a way to face down his mortality, pushing through a project for children in a poor part of East London.
Masterfully adapted from Kurosawa’s original script by novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, and featuring a career-high performance from Nighy, Living is a tender and deeply felt drama.
- DIRECTOR: Oliver Hermanus
- CAST: Bill Nighy, Aimee-Lou Wood, Alex Sharp
- LANGUAGE: English
