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Oliver Hermanus’ 'Living', a faithful remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 'Ikiru', stars Bill Nighy as a terminally ill repressed bureaucrat who realizes it's time to rage against the dying of the light.
Nighy is a practical lock for an Academy Award nomination in what will be a crowded field.
It's probably not fair, this season especially, to recoil at the remaking of a classic.
Exquisitely directed by Oliver Hermanus from a script by Kazuo Ishiguro, this English-language remake of Akira Kurosawa's 'Ikiru' finds fresh depths in a classic.
Writer Kazuo Ishiguro and director Oliver Hermanus want a younger generation to take the lessons of the film "and give them new energy.”