Sleekly sentimental, ‘Living’ plays like an ‘Afterschool Special’ for grownups

Sleekly sentimental, ‘Living’ plays like an ‘Afterschool Special’ for grownupsBill Nighy plays a bottled-up bureaucrat who embarks on a quest for meaning in Living.

Bill Nighy plays a bottled-up bureaucrat on a quest for meaning in Kazuo Ishiguro’s adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film Ikiru. The first film felt inventive and urgent — Living doesn’t live up.

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