Williams' nosy neighbor spots the pair having lunch and tells Fiona, who demands Michael speak to his father about the potential scandal. Returning to London but not to work, Williams runs into Miss Harris, a former colleague who took up a position at a Lyon's Corner House restaurant while he was away. In a pub, he sings 'The Rowan Tree,' a Scottish folk song from his childhood. Moved by Williams' story, Sutherland takes him for a night on the town, where Williams replaces his traditional bowler hat with a fedora after his bowler hat is stolen by a prostitute. Sutherland, an insomniac writer he meets in a restaurant. Finding himself unable to go through with it, he gives the sleeping medicine to Mr. When Mr Williams receives a terminal cancer diagnosis he neglects to tell his son Michael and daughter-in-law, Fiona, instead opting to withdraw half of his life savings, purchase a lethal amount of sleeping medicine, and commit suicide in a seaside resort town. Mr Williams receives the petition and adds it to his pile of paperwork, making clear to his colleagues his intention to take no further action. They are sent with their petition from department to department but to no avail. A group of women, led by Mrs Smith ( Lia Williams), petition the council to have a World War II bomb site redeveloped into a children’s playground. He sits at his desk surrounded by piles of paperwork, and seems uninspired. Rodney Williams is a senior London County Council bureaucrat in 1953 London. The film received positive reviews, with Nighy's performance receiving particular acclaim, and at the 95th Academy Awards was nominated for Best Actor (Nighy) and Best Adapted Screenplay. Living had its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival on 21 January 2022, and was released in the United Kingdom on 4 November 2022, by Lionsgate.

Set in 1953 London, it depicts a bureaucrat in the county Public Works department (played by Bill Nighy) facing a fatal illness.

Living is a 2022 British drama film directed by Oliver Hermanus from a screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro, adapted from the 1952 Japanese film Ikiru directed by Akira Kurosawa, which in turn was inspired by the 1886 Russian novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy.

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