Nov 11th
Living**  (12A)   
(Plaza Community Cinema, Liverpool)

(GB/Finland 2022)
Lionsgate/Film Four/Number 9 Films/Lipsync/Film i Vast. 109m.

A repressed civil servant discovers he is dying, and spends his few remaining months trying to live his life better.
Skillful and moving transposition of Kurosawa's Ikiru (and before that Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich) over to austere London of the early 1950s, and despite the occasional modern accent in some of the cast, and some gaps in the plot, the stifling atmosphere of the working environment is very well conveyed, with a lead actor ideally cast.

Written by: Kazuo Ishiguro.
Producers: Stephen Woolley, Elizabeth Karlsen.
Director: Oliver Hermanus.
Starring: Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharpe, Tom Burke, Barney Fishwick, Michael Cochrane, Thomas Coombes.
Photography: Jamie D. Ramsey.
Music: Emilie Levieanaise-Farrouch (plus Sibelius and Vaughan-Williams)
Editing: Chris Wyatt.