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"Living": a reverent but strangely abbreviated remake of a Kurosawa masterpiece

"Living": a reverent but strangely abbreviated remake of a Kurosawa masterpiece

The great Bill Nighy is masterful in a strangely simplified adaptation of "Ikiru."

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Jeffrey Overstreet
Jan 23, 2023
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Bill Nighy is Mr. Watanabe… I mean, Mr. Williams in this adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru. [Image from the Sony Pictures Classics trailer.]

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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