“It's never too late to start.”
London, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city's bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless. Then a devastating medical diagnosis forces him to take stock, and to try and grasp some fulfilment before it passes permanently beyond reach.
Oliver Hermanus
Stephen Woolley
Elizabeth Karlsen
Kazuo Ishiguro
Jamie D. Ramsay
Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch
Bill Nighy
Williams
Aimee Lou Wood
Margaret Harris
Alex Sharp
Peter Wakeling
Tom Burke
Sutherland
Adrian Rawlins
Middleton
Oliver Chris
Hart
Hubert Burton
Rusbridger
Zoe Boyle
Mrs. McMasters
Barney Fishwick
Michael
Patsy Ferran
Fiona
Michael Cochrane
Sir James
Lia Williams
Mrs. Smith
... and 24 more
CinemaSerf
Now I am not usually a particular fan of Bill Nighy but in this he is very much at the top of his game. An adaptation of Kurosawa's "Ikuru" (1952), the setting is shifted to London where Nighy is the fastidious "Mr. Williams". A local civil servant heading up the public works department of the Londo...
Peter McGinn
This is one of the better “quiet” movies, as I call them, that I have watched in a long time. Bill Nighy seems to excel in restrained roles, where he speaks quietly and shows emotion subtly. I am thinking especially of The Girl in the Cafe, where he oddly enough also plays a civil servant. Nighy ...
First 10 Minutes
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Nehind The Scenes
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Kazuo Ishiguro Pitched the Idea of Living to Bill Nighy While in a Taxi | EE BAFTAs Red Carpet
Featurette • YouTube
Scene at the Academy: Living
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'Living' with Bill Nighy and Oliver Hermanus
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Official US Trailer
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