Critically acclaimed new film Living might initially seem a world away from cinematic classics like Trainspotting or Dead Poets Society. But if we look closer, the underlying message is the same. Even if it takes close proximity to death to ram home the message, choose life. Seize the day.
Bill Nighy produces one of the finest performances of a storied and varied career as Mr Williams, a civil servant in 1950s London whose humdrum, regimented life is upturned by the realisation that he has limited time left on the planet.
It sends him reeling. This quiet, reserved man of inaction acquires a sense of urgency. The organised, methodical office worker embarks on a wild night of drinking, gambling, singing, philosophising and healing with a hedonistic writer played, with some relish, by Tom Burke. Next, he
