Oliver Hermanus’s film Living appeared at Toronto with a clutch of prestigious festival slots already under its belt, having premiered at Sundance earlier in the year and followed that with appear…
appeared at Toronto with a clutch of prestigious festival slots already under its belt, having premiered at Sundance earlier in the year and followed that with appearance in Venice and Telluride. A period film set in ‘50s London, it stars Bill Nighy as an office worker forced to come to terms with his mortality. “It’s the story of a man who comes to realize that his life is coming to an end,” said Hermanus when he visited TIFF’s Deadline Studio. “And he questions whether he’s lived at all.
Surprisingly, Hermanus wasn’t daunted by the challenge. “In essence, I think what attracted me to the project was the people who were making it,” he said. “It was the opportunity to work in England, the opportunity to work with Bill, the opportunity to work with Ishiguro and our production company Number 9, and the opportunity to work with our amazing creatives, like costume designer Sandy Powell — and I was able to bring my director of photography [Jamie Ramsay] along with me.
Asked about his character, Nighy obliged in his usual droll style. “I play Mr. Williams,” he said, “who’s a man who works in an institution — a very large and elaborate arrangement — which is designed solely to prevent things from happening. In other words, it’s a government department, and that’s largely what governments are involved in: procrastination of one sort or another.
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