Living IFI@Belltable
WORLD CINEMA
Oliver Hermanus | 102 mins | UK, Japan | 2022 | Digital | PG
This film is Open Captioned at 5pm*
Living is a story about Mr Williams (Bill Nighy) . A reserved, diligent, English gentleman, working as a mid-level bureaucrat in post-war London County Council who presides over a small team who live in respectful fear of their taciturn superior.
His entirely unremarkable life is derailed when his doctor gives him the news nobody wants to hear: he is terminally ill with mere months to live.
Living IFI@Belltable
In the clumsy manner of one unaccustomed to such things, Mr. Williams attempts to experience some fleeting pleasures before settling on one final purpose, the construction of a children’s playground. In remaking Ikiru, Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 masterpiece,
Oliver Hermanus could be accused of overreach, but his exquisitely realised film, sensitively adapted by Nobel and Booker prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro, and gorgeously filmed in sunset tones, is a triumph on every level, and is distinctive enough to exist alongside Kurosawa’s classic.
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