British Film Festival favourite Bill Nighy (Hope Gap BFF19, Sometimes, Always, Never BFF18, The Bookshop BFF17) returns in an expertly realised retelling of the masterful 1952 Akira Kurosawa film Ikiru. Filmmaker Oliver Hermanus directs a script from prize winning author Kazuo Ishiguro that brings fresh inspiration to a certified classic.
Mr. Williams (Nighy) presents as a quintessential 1950s English gentleman, buttoned-down and pinstriped, attending his mid-level bureaucratic job. When Williams receives a terminal diagnosis from his doctor, he begins to reflect on a life less lived as his time is about to run out.
In a tremendous performance, Nighy masterfully captures the inevitable questions as Williams ponders his mortality, his life, loves and legacy. Featuring outstanding production design by Helen Scott (Mothering Sunday BFF21) and costume design by the multiple Academy Award–winning Sandy Powell and captured on screen by cinematographer Jamie Ramsay (Mothering Sunday BFF21), Living offers viewers an important reminder a life is best lived when it is filled with love.
NOMINEE – Audience Award, San Sebastián International Film Festival 2022
"An absolutely gorgeous, heartbreaking piece of work."
- Rolling Stone
Wednesday 19th October
102 min
15+
Bill Nighy, Alex Sharp, Aimee Lou Wood, Tom Burke
Oliver Hermanus
Film Festival
English
Palace Norton St
