Living

Name: Living
Genre: Drama
Released: December 23, 2022
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 81
Cast: Adrian Rawlins, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp, Anant Varman, Bill Nighy

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Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: December 23, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Adrian Rawlins, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp, Anant Varman, Bill Nighy, Hubert Burton, Lia Williams, Michael Cochrane, Oliver Chris, Zoe Boyle

Summary: An ordinary man (Bill Nighy), reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful.

Director: Oliver Hermanus

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 102 min

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Moira Macdonald

Jan 23, 2023

This quiet tale of an ordinary 1950s London man (Bill Nighy) facing the end of his life is a joy: elegantly written, movingly performed, evocatively filmed. Read full review

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Phil de Semlyen

Jan 31, 2022

Nighy has never been better than in this richly rewarding ’50s-set drama about a repressed and terminally ill man who discovers life just as it comes to an end. Read full review

Odie Henderson

Jan 12, 2023

Living acknowledges the bitter irony of impending death bringing a man back to life. Nighy makes it look effortless; he gives an Oscar-worthy performance that made me cry almost as much as Takashi Shimura did in Kurosawa’s classic. Read full review

Mark Kermode

Nov 8, 2022

This deceptively gentle 50s-set film addresses weighty matters of life and death with a winning simplicity that is hard to resist. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Jan 5, 2023

Throughout, Bill Nighy carries the film effortlessly on his slender shoulders, reminding us of why he’s an international treasure. Read full review

Cassie da Costa

Feb 3, 2022

The language of the film is found not in the thoughtfully restrained dialogue Ishiguro has written—which accurately reflects the collective repression of polite British society—but in the images Hermanus, cinematographer Jamie Ramsay, and editor Chris Wyatt have constructed, in collaboration with production designer Helen Scott and costume designer Sandy Powell. Read full review

Jake Coyle

Jan 2, 2023

There’s a stale emptiness to Living that doesn’t entirely dissipate in even its most moving scenes. Read full review

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Mauro_Lanari

Mar 22, 2023

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From what I remember of "Ikiru", seen too many years ago, the film strength lies in the power of a story without frills. The remake of Hermanus is instead mannerist, already the choice not to transpose it into the contemporary age by treating it as a perod drama affects its(Mauro Lanari)
From what I remember of "Ikiru", seen too many years ago, the film strength lies in the power of a story without frills. The remake of Hermanus is instead mannerist, already the choice not to transpose it into the contemporary age by treating it as a perod drama affects its existential value, sunk even more by a glossy, lacquered, invasive photograph. It saves itself in the third act when returns to the now dead protagonist on the wave of bluntly unadorned memories and reactions.… Expand

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