Living Trivia | 35 facts about the movie

«Living» is a 2022 British drama film directed by Oliver Hermanus from a screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro.

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1. Living is a 2022 British drama film.
2. It was directed by Oliver Hermanus.
3. The screenplay was written by Kazuo Ishiguro.
4. It was 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. S
5. et in 1953 London, it depicts a bureaucrat (played by Bill Nighy) facing a fatal illness.
6. Living had its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival on 21 January 2022.
7. It was released in the United Kingdom on 4 November 2022, by Lionsgate.
8. The film received positive reviews, with Nighy’s performance receiving particular acclaim.
9. In October 2020, the project was announced with Nighy and Wood attached to star.
10. In December 2020, Lionsgate acquired the UK distribution rights.
11. In June 2021, principal photography began in the UK, Sharp and Burke were announced to have joined the film, and the first image from the film was released.
12. It was also announced that Toho, the distributor of the original film, had acquired the rights for Japan.
13. London County Hall provided the backdrop for the film
14. In addition to co-financing it, through the County Hall Arts charity.
15. I was announced that Sony Pictures Classics had acquired the distribution rights in North America, Latin America, India, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Germany, South Africa, Southeast Asia and airlines worldwide.
16. It screened at the BFI London Film Festival in October 2022.
17. The TCL Chinese Theatre as part of the 2022 AFI Fest on 6 November 2022
18. It was released theatrically in the United Kingdom on 4 November 2022, along with a limited theatrical release in the United States on 23 December 2022.
19. Kazuo Ishiguro had dreamed of doing a remake of Ikiru in English with Bill Nighy for many years.
20. One night he and his wife ended up sharing a cab with Nighy after a party, and he pitched the idea. Nighy had never seen Ikiru, but once he watched it he enthusiastically signed on to the project.
21. During a Q & A at the 2022 AFI Film Festival, Bill Nighy confessed that despite numerous opportunities, he has not seen the finished film. He dislikes watching himself onscreen, and hasn’t watched most of his films.
22. Bill Nighy sings in this film. He also sang in “Love Actually” (2003).
23. We find out that Mr Williams lives in Esher, Surrey. Assuming he gets on the train to London Waterloo at Esher this would mean his colleagues get on the same train at Hersham (the prior stop ) or possibly Walton on Thames if there is a stop before not seen in the movie.
24. The production designers went to a great deal of trouble to make this film look like it was made in the era it was set, including avoiding quick edits, softening the colour palette and using a relevant font for the film credits.
25. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 96% based on 79 reviews, with an average rating of 8.2/10.
27. On Metacritic, it holds a weighted average score of 80 of out 100, based on 20 reviews.
28. Vintage 1950s colour newsreel footage was digitally cleaned up for this film to add authenticity to establishing shots of London.
29. Lyons Corner Houses were a chain of upmarket tea shops that, at their peak, had 250 in London alone, although their popularity declined after WW2 due to changing tastes and the last one closed in 1977. Interestingly Lyons were directly responsible for the introduction of programmable electronic mainframe computers into the UK after commissioning a team of engineers to build one to help automate part of the business The result was so successful and gained so much attention that Lyons set up their own computer manufacturing division, called LEO to make and sell commercial computer business systems systems. LEO branded computer’s were still in use until the early 1980s although the company had disappeared long before then , eventually becoming ICL.
30. The movie is set in 1953 but in the vintage film clip of London at the start there are Routemaster buses. They didn’t come in until 1956.
31. The trains shown running into Waterloo are seen on standard two-rail track, but by 1953 Southern Region would have been three-rail electrified.
32. The Standard class 4MTT Steam locomotive 80151 was built in 1957. The movie is set in 1952.
33. If you leave Waterloo Station to walk to the Greater London County Council (GLCC) you don’t walk across Westminster bridge. They’re on the same side South Bank.
34. The movies lasts 102 minutea.
35. It was niminated for 4 awards in the British Indepedent Film Awards, and won 1.