“Living” (2022) – The year is 1953 in the UK. As director Oliver Hermanus’ film – a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 “Ikiru” – opens, London is alive! The city bustles with vitality with residents, tourists, various vehicles, and those classic AEC Routemaster red, double-decker busses traversing across the pavement while “Serenade for Strings in E” gloriously bounces in the background. Also, Hermanus includes a title sequence that looks like the film is straight out of the 1950s. He and writer Kazuo Ishiguro offer a time machine to the last…
‘Living’: Nighy deserves a Best Actor Oscar nomination in this affecting, tender Kurosawa remake
