"Living": a reverent but strangely abbreviated remake of a Kurosawa masterpiece
The great Bill Nighy is masterful in a strangely simplified adaptation of "Ikiru."

Living is a lovely showcase for the singular screen presence of Bill Nighy, and a reverent — too reverent, actually — homage to Ikiru that, running almost 40 minutes shorter than Akira Kurosawa's 1956 masterpiece…
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