Living - Reviews

...there is such piercing vulnerability in the delicacy with which Bill Nighy plays Mr Williams, a Big Smoke pencil pusher forced to reckon with what life really means before he draws his final breath.

Kazuo Ishiguro elegantly adapts 1950s mortality tale.

...a rare remake that only augments and enriches the original.

...an extremely proper British film is the perfect vehicle for an extremely proper Bill Nighy.

...Nighy makes Living worthwhile through sheer force of will. In the film’s picturesque, composed, nearly stagnant beauty, he finds something honest in repression.

Bill Nighy is brilliant in this graceful, affecting Akira Kurosawa remake.

Nighy, Ishiguro, and director Hermanus (Moffie) take Williams to a place of unexpected redemption, courtesy of a dirty old backstreet, with a vital moral: To live is to live as oneself.

...a tender film, a warm production that manages to stay on the right side of sentimentality throughout.

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. 

...en snygg brittisk version med Bill Nighy som levererar den bästa prestationen i sin karriär...

...[Bill Nighy er] rørende i rollen som den indtørrede mand med de sorgsorte øjne.

Oväntad lyckad remake av älskad klassiker