Oliver Hermanus’ Living Is the Best of Sundance So Far

In this year’s Sundance Festival slate, one narrative feature stands out as something of a surprise. British-Japanese novelist Kazuo Ishiguro has teamed with South African director Oliver Hermanus (Moffie) for Living, an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s tender 1952 film Ikiru starring Bill Nighy as a spiritually comatose widower and civil servant pushing paper nearly into oblivion in 1950s London. Mr. Williams, as he is called by nearly everyone except his older son—who, along with his wife, impatiently calls him Dad—is suddenly on the verge of death from stomach cancer. His interactions bloom at first haphazardly and then more determinedly from… Read Full Article