Living (2022)

Not one for the Marvel generation perhaps, but this film oozes personality. Bill NIghy is … well … Bill Nighy, at his very, very best. You know how method actors try to inhabit their roles? Well, Bill I think brings his own personaility into every role and enhances it. The other characters are believable and sweet, especially gawky Aimee Lou Wood (Sex Education) and flawed (but we are never told how) Tom Burke (Musketeers, Strike). The music and screenplay are superb, down to the 1950’s styled credits, the simplified colour palate of much of the film and the setting in London County Hall. Kazuo Ishiguro, take a bow. And perhaps a little credit for Leo Tolstoy too!