Bill Nighy Gives the Performance of His Career in ‘Living’

Dec 21 2022 by The Daily Beast

 
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Lionsgate UK

A remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 masterpiece Ikiru, that itself was inspired by Leo Tolstoy’s 1886 novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Living boasts an illustrious lineage. Amazingly, it more than lives up to its predecessors, putting a fittingly mid-century British spin on its heartbreaking and inspiring tale about a lonely professional who, at the end of his days, discovers a long-forgotten purpose.

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