2022, UK\/Japan\/Sweden, 102 min.<\/b><\/p>\n
In early 1950s London, lifelong bureaucrat Mr. Williams (Bill Nighy), whose life is all rigid routine and almost comatose stoicism, receives a shattering diagnosis. After a couple of attempts at living life to the fullest\u2014including a drunken, sentimental night in a seaside town\u2014he devotes his attention to a small, crumbling, neighborhood playground. This short, bittersweet character study leans heavily on Nighy\u2019s exquisite, Oscar-nominated performance\u2014you can practically see the weight of buried feelings in every gesture\u2014and the narrative shifts in Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro\u2019s script. But <\/span>Living<\/span><\/i>\u2019s bittersweet, even rueful, message emerges. Committing the smallest act, even in the autumn of our years, can tie up many loose ends, though some matters of the heart remain heartbreakingly unresolved. Adapted from Akira Kurosawa\u2019s <\/span>Ikiru<\/span><\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In early 1950s London, lifelong bureaucrat Mr. Williams (Bill Nighy), whose life is all rigid routine and almost comatose stoicism, receives a shattering diagnosis.<\/span><\/p>\n