MUBI has shared a trailer for The History of Sound, the historical romantic drama from Oliver Hermanus which is based on writer Ben Shattuck’s short story of the same name. The film follows Lionel (Paul Mescal), a music student who bonds with David (Josh O’Connor) over their love of folk music. Years later, following WWI […]
Movie Review – Living (2022)
Living, 2022. Directed by Oliver Hermanus. Starring Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp, Tom Burke, Adrian Rawlins, Oliver Chris, Michael Cochrane, Zoe Boyle, Lia Williams, Richard Cunningham, Ffion Jolly, Jamie Wilkes, John MacKay, Celeste Dodwell, Hubert Burton, Anant Varman, Jessica Flood, John Mackay, Jonathan Keeble, Barney Fishwick, Patsy Ferran, Eunice Roberts, and Nichola McAuliffe. […]
Movie Review – Living (2022)
Living, 2022. Directed by Oliver Hermanus. Starring Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp, and Tom Burke. SYNOPSIS: An English-language adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film Ikiru, set in London in the 1950s. It’s a testament to the tectonic power of Akira Kurosawa’s classic 1952 existential drama Ikiru that, even seven full decades on, the […]
Exclusive Interview – Living director Oliver Hermanus
Chris Connor chats with Living director Oliver Hermanus… To coincide with its wide release this week, we sat down with Living director Oliver Hermanus to discuss the film playing at the festival, working with the acclaimed novelist Kazuo Ishiguro and the challenges and opportunities presented by adapting Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru and reinterpreting it for a […]
2022 BFI London Film Festival Review – Living
Living, 2022. Directed by Oliver Hermanus. Starring Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Tom Burke, and Alex Sharp. SYNOPSIS: An English-language adaptation of the script of “Ikiru” (1952), set in London in the 1950s. Akira Kurosawa’s works have often lent themselves to Western reinterpretation, be it Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven, Yojimbo and A Fistful […]
Bill Nighy is looking for meaning from life in trailer for Living
Living is an English-language adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film Ikiru, set in London in the 1950s and starring Bill Nighy. How’s that for a synopsis? Debuting at this years Sundance Film Festival, we called the Oliver Hermanus directed film “a respectable – and respectful – remake” that’s “elevated by Bill Nighy’s stirring performance” in our ★★★★ […]
Movie Review – Moffie (2019)
Moffie, 2019. Directed by Oliver Hermanus. Starring Kai Luke Brummer, Ryan de Villiers, Matthew Vey, Hilton Pelser, Stefan Vermaak and Wynand Ferreira. SYNOPSIS: During South Africa’s apartheid era, a conscripted teenager must conceal his same-sex desires. In a recent interview with the Guardian, Capetonian filmmaker Oliver Hermanus, when discussing his fourth feature, remarked that he […]
