Living (2022)
runtime: 1h 42m | rating: 7.3/10 In 1950s London, a humorless bureaucrat decides to take time off work to experience life after receiving a grim diagnosis. Overwhelmed at work and lonely at home, a council bureaucrat's life takes a heartbreaking turn when a medical diagnosis tells him his time is short. Influenced by a local decadent and a vibrant woman, he continues to search for meaning until a simple revelation gives him a purpose to create a legacy for the next generation. — Official synopsis London, 1953. Having sacrificed the best years of his already uneventful life toiling away at Kafkaesque, soul-draining London County Council, buttoned-up bureaucrat Mr Williams suddenly realises there's no time for regrets. And with retirement looming, the unsightly, irrevocable truth forces the melancholic English gentleman into a tardive reevaluation of his mundane life. Because time is free, but it flies like an arrow. We all have one life to live. The question is, can we make i...