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- Bill Nighy has not seen his latest feature, the Sony Pictures Classic release, “ Living.” In fact, he hasn’t seen any of his films.
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Living trailer. Dir: Oliver Hermanus. Starring: Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp, Tom Burke. 12A, 102 minutes. Ikiru, in its plaintive modernity, may not be the most widely recognisable of...
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Dec 24, 2022 · NPR's Scott Simon talks with the actor Bill Nighy about the movie "Living." He plays a joyless bureaucrat who receives a terminal diagnosis and reconsiders his life.
Dec 21, 2022 · Earlier this year, at the virtual Sundance Film Festival, where “Living” premiered and scored U.S. distribution with Sony Pictures Classics, Nighy sat down to discuss his philosophy of acting, a lifelong affinity for great writers, and his hardest days on set.
- What Is 'Living' About?
- 'Living' Is Based on Akira Kurosawa's 'Ikiru'
- How Does Williams Plan His Last Few months?
- Why Does Williams Build The Playground?
- What Happens to Williams’ Family?
- What Does The Ending Scene Mean?
Directed by Oliver Hermanus, Living follows the final months in the life of an employee in the county Public Works department living in London in 1953. Nighy stars as Mr. Rodney Williams, whose daily experience amounts to little more than pushing papers and following orders at work. However, he is informed that he has terminal cancer and will succu...
Living is an English-language remake of the Akira Kurosawa film Ikiru; many Kurosawa films have been adapted to the English language, and most famously his action classic Seven Samurai was remade as The Magnificent Seven. Ikiru itself was inspired by Leo Tolstoy's beloved 1886 novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Ikiru and Living are virtually identic...
Williams knows that he is disengaged in his job, and finds that the new management within the Public Works program is ineffective and taxing. While initially, Williams focuses on trying to make improvements in a job that he no longer enjoys, he is told by the young secretary Miss Margaret Harris (Aimee Lou-Wood) that some of the other youthful empl...
After taking note of Margaret and Peters’ zealousness, Williams decides to commit himself energetically to the building, construction, and completion of a playground for children that the Public Works department has neglected to develop for years. Realizing that he has the power to bring this playground to life, Williams decides to give back to the...
Although Williams initially is estranged from his son Michael (Barney Fishwick) and daughter-in-law Fiona (Patsy Ferran), he briefly attempts to bond with them before his passing. While Williams prepares himself to tell Michael about his impending death, he cannot work up the courage to do so. Eventually, he becomes so focused on the construction o...
In a nearly exact recreation of the final scene in Ikiru, soon after Williams’ funeral, characters walk by the completed park. A local police officer on patrol at night remembers watching Williams visiting the park and sitting peacefully on the swing; it’s a nearly identical recreation of the iconic shot in Ikiru.The last shot of Williams calmly sw...
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Dec 23, 2022 · In the new "Living" movie, 73-year-old British actor Bill Nighy has a strong shot for a well-deserved first Oscar nomination.
Jan 21, 2022 · The Kazuo Ishiguro-scripted remake of Akira Kurosawa's 'Ikiru' stars Bill Nighy as a British civil servant who searches for meaning after being diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Jan 27, 2023 · Bill Nighy stars opposite Aimee Lou Wood in Oliver Hermanus's somber and moving adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru.
