Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 | Sponsored by Roy DeHaan Carpentry
In this exquisitely realized remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film Ikiru, director Oliver Hermanus teams with Nobel- and Booker Prize–winning author Kazuo Ishiguro to renew a classic. His adaption is nominated for on Oscar for Best Screenplay.
The post-World War II London drama “Living” puts Academy Award nominated Bill Nighy at the centre of the story. He plays Williams, the head of the Public Works Department, reduced by years of an oppressive office routine. When he receives a terminal health diagnosis, he decides at the eleventh hour to take stock in his life and begins trying to be a better person.