Movie- LIVING (8.00pm)

Winner British Independent Film Award

Best Production Design – Helen Scott

2023 OSCAR Nominee

• Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role – Bill Nighy
• Best Adapted Screenplay – Kazuo Ishiguro

Stuff/ Waikato Times – James Croot 5 / 5 Stars: “Bill Nighy is at his stunning, tightly-wound best in this poignant and powerful English-language “reimagining” of Akira Kurosawa’s much-loved 1952 movie Ikiru (To Live).”

1953. A London shattered by WWII is still recovering. Williams (Bill Nighy), a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city’s bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild. Buried under paperwork at the office, lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless. Then a shattering medical diagnosis forces him to take stock – and to try and grasp fulfilment before it goes beyond reach.

At a seaside resort, chaperoned by a local decadent (Tom Burke), he flirts with hedonism before rejecting it as his solution. Back in London he finds himself drawn to the natural vitality of Margaret (Aimee Lou Wood), a young woman who once worked under his supervision and is now determined to spread her wings.

Then one evening he is struck by a revelation – one as simple as it is profound – and with a new energy, and the help of Peter (Alex Sharp), an idealistic new recruit to his department, he sets about creating a legacy for the next generation.

Director: Oliver Hermanus
Writer: Kazuo Ishiguro
Cast: Bill Nighy, Tom Burke, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp, Adrian Rawlins

PG, Coarse language & sexualised imagery | 102 mins

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