Living (2022)
Country: GB/JAP/SV
Technical: col/1.48:1 102m
Director: Oliver Hermanus
Cast: Bill Nighy, Alex Sharp, Aimee Lou Wood, Adrian Rawlins
Synopsis:
Britain in the 50s, and a mummified functionary at the London City Council receives a death sentence from his doctor which, eventually, transforms his life.
Review:
Ishiguro's rewrite of a Kurosawa classic is like a British film of a bygone era, consciously so in its aspect ratio, its evocation of Piccadilly in the fifties via colour archive film, and its meticulous colour grading to match; but also in its privileging of emotional uplift over the sordid realities. The writer, after all, has a knack for pinning down the peculiar distance and quaint social codes of the English, and both Hermanus and his cast respond with a masterclass in micromanaged acting and direction that allows us to glimpse those discreet moments of inner feeling.
Country: GB/JAP/SV
Technical: col/1.48:1 102m
Director: Oliver Hermanus
Cast: Bill Nighy, Alex Sharp, Aimee Lou Wood, Adrian Rawlins
Synopsis:
Britain in the 50s, and a mummified functionary at the London City Council receives a death sentence from his doctor which, eventually, transforms his life.
Review:
Ishiguro's rewrite of a Kurosawa classic is like a British film of a bygone era, consciously so in its aspect ratio, its evocation of Piccadilly in the fifties via colour archive film, and its meticulous colour grading to match; but also in its privileging of emotional uplift over the sordid realities. The writer, after all, has a knack for pinning down the peculiar distance and quaint social codes of the English, and both Hermanus and his cast respond with a masterclass in micromanaged acting and direction that allows us to glimpse those discreet moments of inner feeling.
Country: GB/JAP/SV
Technical: col/1.48:1 102m
Director: Oliver Hermanus
Cast: Bill Nighy, Alex Sharp, Aimee Lou Wood, Adrian Rawlins
Synopsis:
Britain in the 50s, and a mummified functionary at the London City Council receives a death sentence from his doctor which, eventually, transforms his life.
Review:
Ishiguro's rewrite of a Kurosawa classic is like a British film of a bygone era, consciously so in its aspect ratio, its evocation of Piccadilly in the fifties via colour archive film, and its meticulous colour grading to match; but also in its privileging of emotional uplift over the sordid realities. The writer, after all, has a knack for pinning down the peculiar distance and quaint social codes of the English, and both Hermanus and his cast respond with a masterclass in micromanaged acting and direction that allows us to glimpse those discreet moments of inner feeling.