Living
2022
**½
Director: Oliver Hermanus
Cast: Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp, Tom Burke, Adrian Rawlins, Hubert Burton, Oliver Chris, Michael Cochrane
Mr. Williams is a drab and lifeless County Council bureaucrat, who must reassess his life choices when he is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Bill Nighy, as Mr. Williams, gives a dignified and understated performance, but the drama around him is as slow, dreary, and dull as the protagonist. The story is set in 1953, perhaps because this is a remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1952 film Ikiru.
