Living: Sunday, May 14

Admission $5
Showings @ 2pm, 5pm and 7:30pm
Discussion following the 2pm show
2pm show will be closed captioned if available

(Drama, 1 hour 42 minutes, English, PG13)

Starring Bill Nighy in an Oscar-nominated performance, Living is the story of an ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, who at the eleventh hour makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful. 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. Set in London in 1953, it depicts a bureaucrat in the county Public Works department (played by Bill Nighy) facing a fatal illness.

“Bill Nighy delivers a master class in acting as a stifled Brit bureaucrat who decides to seize the day before it’s too late. Working in miniature to achieve major truths, this deeply human drama has the power to sneak up and knock you sideways.”  — Associated Press

“Sentimental but never cloying, Living is an elegant elegy, a reminder to take little in life for granted — and to forgive the times when that lesson gets overlooked..” — The Atlantic