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Sign In. Living Hide Spoilers. Wonderful performance from Bill Nighy.

Williams : I don't have time to get angry. Williams : I wonder if you ever stop on the way home and watch the children playing. In the street, or in the yard. And when the time comes and their mothers call them in, they're often reluctant. They, they get a little contrary. But that's as it should be. Far better than to be the child you occasionally see, he's sitting by himself in the corner not taking part, not happy, not unhappy.

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Sign In. Edit Living Peter Wakeling Adrian Rawlins Middleton Hubert Burton Rusbridger Oliver Chris Hart Bill Nighy Williams Michael Cochrane Sir James Anant Varman Singh Aimee Lou Wood Margaret Harris Zoe Boyle Mrs McMasters Lia Williams Mrs Smith Jessica Flood Mrs Porter Jamie Wilkes

And then I looked at you. It is now my favorite film and I can't wait to re-watch it living imdb direct every scene and every hidden message.

Sign In Sign In. New Customer? Create account. The production designers went to a great deal of trouble to make this film look like it was made in the era it was set, including avoiding quick edits, softening the colour palette and using a relevant font for the film credits. Kazuo Ishiguro had dreamed of doing a remake of Ikiru in English with Bill Nighy for many years.

A buttoned-up civil servant works joylessly in the town planning department; he is a lonely widower estranged from his grasping son and daughter-in-law. In the original, he was Mr Watanabe, played by Takashi Shimura. Now he is Mr Williams, played by Bill Nighy. Approaching retirement, his supposed reward for a life of pointless tedium, Mr Williams receives a stomach-cancer diagnosis with one year to live. And now he realises that he has been dead until this moment. Through sheer force of will, and astonishing his co-workers with his deeply unbecoming new urgency and baffling desire to help people, Mr Williams is determined to get the playground built before death closes in. Nighy is heartbreakingly shy and sensitive, his refined, almost birdlike profile presented to the camera in occasional stark and enigmatic closeups.

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By Angie Han. Television Critic. Living The Bottom Line A touching but not exactly essential remake of a classic. Williams Nighy has been a bureaucrat in the Public Works office for decades. What finally jolts him out of his deadening routine is the imminence of actual death. Informed by his doctor that he has only six months left to live, he grasps for some way to make his limited time count — by losing himself in hedonistic pleasures with the help of a hard-drinking but generous stranger Tom Burke , by attaching himself to an upbeat younger colleague Aimee Lou Wood , and ultimately by finding purpose in a minor but meaningful public works project.

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A small wonder I didn't notice As such I will rate it average. Mrs Matthews. See more gaps Learn more about contributing. A local civil servant heading up the public works department of the London County Council. Williams : [letter to Peter Wakeling] I wonder, Mr. Though he is able to push the process through by standing up to his colleagues and superiors, he dies shortly after construction is finished. I was right there with him. See our picks. Angry Pubgoer uncredited. Share this page:. That was saved for young Margaret Harris Aimee Lou Wood , who spent a short time working in Williams' department; her lively outlook on life helped him reorient his own viewpoint during his final days.

Bill Nighy is a fun, uninhibited actor, but there's an abashed, melancholy quality to him that hasn't been fully explored until "Living," a drama about a senior citizen reckoning with his life. Nighy became an unlikely star playing a dissolute, clownish old rocker in "Love, Actually," and he's been aces in a series of character parts and second leads ever since. You never find unnecessary or inorganic flourishes in his acting: he's a pro who goes in and gets it done, whatever the role's parameters.

Commuter uncredited Nigel Finnissy Xstal 3 March Need to watch. And that it will, before long go the way of most small things. I watched the trailer for this film, I was fascinated to see it was an English language remake of the Akira Kurosawa film Ikiru "to live" , and I heard it was getting positive reviews, so I wasn't going to miss it. Jamie Wilkes Talbot. Recently viewed. I've become afraid that I might end up like that child. Williams : I wonder if you ever stop on the way home and watch the children playing. Williams is always very quiet and very polite, he keeps an arms distance from his crew, not even riding in the same train car to and from work. Titles Designer Jonathan Wayre While never really aspiring to reach the heights of Kurosawa's masterpiece, often sited among the best films ever made , Hermanus has nevertheless created a deeply moving and surprisingly unsentimental film that, thanks to superb cinematography and design, actually looks like it might have been filmed in the period in which it's set. If you ever feel untethered, purposeless, this may mean an awful lot to you. That becomes contagious as he decides to apply himself, and his team, to achieving at least one more thing in a professional capacity!