2022 · drama
Living
Directed by Oliver Hermanus1h 42m2022
London, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city's bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless. Then a devastating medical diagnosis forces him to take stock, and to try and grasp some fulfilment before it passes permanently beyond reach.
Our read: Living (2022) reads as a neutral, slow-burn, grounded drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, slow-burn, measured drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- slow-burn
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How Living feels to watch.
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