'Living' isn't just a remake of Akita Kurosawa's 'Ikiru' -- it's also a career-best showcase for Bill Nighy, giving the best performance of the year. Our review:
Yet it’s Nighy who inevitably begins to guide us gently through Williams’ inner life of quiet desperation, perpetually on the verge of being self-muted entirely, and that’s when you become aware of exactly how great an actor he truly is. At one point, a quick litany of flashbacks involving youth, compromise and loss play out against nothing but the actor’s reactions; each small shift in his expression moves you along the line of his memories.
out of the realm of a remake and into something far more profound. It becomes another story of a man at long last learning how to embrace the world, yet one that is completely substantial and shattering and, yeah, even life-affirming on its own. The performance lifts it above and beyond. By the time the movie pays homage by replicating’s most famous shot of an old man on a swing, totally alive for the first time, Nighy makes you feel like the nod is earned.
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