Living 2022 Showtimes Near Mariemont Theatre (2024)

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What is the living film about? ›

Overwhelmed at work and lonely at home, a civil servant's life takes a heartbreaking turn when a medical diagnosis tells him his time is short. Influenced by a local decadent and a vibrant woman, he continues to search for meaning until a simple revelation gives him a purpose to create a legacy for the next generation.

Living / Film synopsis

Critics Reviews

The movie is a slow-burn that never accelerates but Bill Nighy's performance makes it a compelling experience. Content collapsed. The film itself is like eating a rich dessert: you marvel at all the constituent parts, but when it's over, you may have regrets.

Living, a movie adapted by a fiction writer who first saw its original story acted out by his mother when he was a child, is particularly fascinating for how it seems to pull together all the various threads of Ishiguro's history: his curiosities, his heritage, his early life as a jobbing scriptwriter, his abiding love ...

"Living" is more than just a movie; it reminds us that our lives are limited and valuable, and we should make the most of our time. It is a call to action, inspiring us to find our purpose and make a difference in our community and around the world.

If you missed it at the cinema in 2022 though, you can now check out Living on Netflix in the UK and Ireland after it was added to the streaming service today (July 3). Living also stars Sex Education's Aimee Lou Wood in her first lead movie role, alongside Tom Burke, Alex Sharp, Adrian Rawlins and Lia Williams.

Living was filmed throughout recognizable areas of London like Waterloo Station and London County Hall. Though production stayed in London for most of the shoot, other Living filming locations were shot in Chatham, Worthing, Brighton, and Guildford.

Worth watching. Nothing over exciting but a good watch. Set in London in 1953, Living follows the mundane life of Williams, a veteran civil servant working day after day in an oppressive office environment, pushing paperwork from department to department as others attempt to rebuild post-war Britain.

Kazuo Ishiguro has earned his first Oscar nomination for his adapted screenplay for the film Living, which also earned a Best Actor nomination for Bill Nighy.

Because it's a nice story of the stultifying effects of government bureaucracy. It takes place after World War II, when there were still a number of bombed out places in London. According to Wikipedia, it takes place in 1953.

What happens at the end of the film Living? ›

In a nearly exact recreation of the final scene in Ikiru, soon after Williams' funeral, characters walk by the completed park. A local police officer on patrol at night remembers watching Williams visiting the park and sitting peacefully on the swing; it's a nearly identical recreation of the iconic shot in Ikiru.

SUMMARY: This is a story of a boy named Shy who is trying to earn some cash over the summer by working on a cruise ship. Shy wants to help his family with medical bills stemming from his grandmother's affliction with an unknown virus.

A drifter (Mike Dytri) and a film critic (Craig Gilmore) hit the road as fugitives and as gay lovers who are HIV positive.

The Living End / Film synopsis

Fresh score. Fresh audience score. A drifter (Mike Dytri) and a film critic (Craig Gilmore) hit the road as fugitives and as gay lovers who are HIV positive.

Set in post-revolutionary Russia, We The Living tells the moving story of three people struggling against Soviet oppression: the novel's heroine Kira Argounova, a young woman whose fiercely independent spirit rebels against communism; Leo Kovalenksy, the man she loves, whose bourgeois origins mark him as an enemy of ...