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LIVING

By Oliver HERMANUS

Drama - Completed 2021

An adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's 1952 classic "Ikiru" by Nobel & Booker Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro. This is a film about how a small but epic act can become a momentous event.

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Sundance Film Festival 2022

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- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Duration
- 102 mn
- Director(s)
- Oliver HERMANUS
- Writer(s)
- Kazou ISHIGURO
- Cast
- Bill NIGHY, Aimee Lou WOOD, Alex SHARP, Tom BURKE
- Producer(s)
- Stephen WOOLLEY (NUMBER 9 FILMS LIMITED), Elizabeth KARLSEN (NUMBER 9 FILMS LIMITED)
- Synopsis
- In London 1952, Williams, a veteran civil servant, has become a small cog in the bureaucracy of rebuilding post-WWII England. As endless paperwork piles up on his desk, he learns he has a fatal illness. Thus begins his quest to find some meaning to his life before it slips away. He first attempts, with limited success, to throw himself into debauchery during a wild night in Brighton in the company of a bohemian writer he befriends there. Arriving back in London, he ignores family and work responsibilities for days on end. But soon he becomes intrigued by Margaret, a young co-worker in his office, who appears to exemplify exactly what life and living is. As their friendship grows, she shows him how to harness his years of experience and dedication into a final supreme effort to push through, against all odds, a modest, much-delayed project for children in a poor district of London. This last generous act rewards Williams with a revelatory understanding of the joys and meaning of living.

LIVING

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