Date and Tim

Friday, December 9, 2022 at 8.30pm
Tuesday, December 13, 2022 at 4.00pm
Friday, December 16, 2022 at 8.30pm
Sunday, December 18, 2022 at 8.30pm
Saturday, December 24, 2022 at 6.00pm
Thursday, December 29, 2022 at 7.30pm
Sunday, January 8, 2023 at 8.30pm

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 – into one he can say has been lived to the full.

1953. A London shattered by WWII is still recovering. Williams (Bill Nighy), a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city’s bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild. Buried under paperwork at the office, lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless. Then a shattering medical diagnosis forces him to take stock – and to try and grasp fulfilment before it goes beyond reach. At a seaside resort, chaperoned by a local decadent (Tom Burke), he flirts with hedonism before rejecting it as his solution. Back in London he finds himself drawn to the natural vitality of Margaret (Aimee Lou Wood), a young woman who once worked under his supervision and is now determined to spread her wings. Then one evening he is struck by a revelation – one as simple as it is profound – and with a new energy, and the help of Peter (Alex Sharp), an idealistic new recruit to his department, he sets about creating a legacy for the next generation.

Directed by Kazuo Ishiguro and based on Akira Kurosawa’s film Ikiru