LIVING
Type: dramatic ✦✦✦
Director: Oliver Hermanus. With Bill Nighy, With Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp, Oliver Chris
Bill Nighy in a scene from “Living”
Kanji Watanabe becomes Mr. Williams: South African director Hermanus takes up Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece, Ikiru – To live of 1952and transports it, as a period film, in the field of winners, in post-war England.
The screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro does not differ, except in significant details, from the original story: the existential awakening of an ordinary man, a bureaucrat, his belated discovery of life, of love and, above all, of its own absolute irrelevance.
More What’s left of the day with its melancholy and repressed emotions inherent in the English culture of chilling confrontation with The death of Ivan Ilyich.
Bill Nighy’s whispered performance tolerates no dubbing.
LEGEND:
✦ modest
✦✦ good
✦✦✦ excellent
✦✦✦✦ masterpiece
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