Live movie review: Bill Nighy represses his trademark charm and wit in one of the year’s best movies

As soft and dry as a week-old husky bread, Mr. Williams has been commuting from the in-house districts to his pen-filled office job for decades.

Wearing a basketball cap, briefcase in hand, he seemed like a human metronome and his subordinates lived in fear of his frenzy for accuracy.

But one afternoon, Mr. Williams asked permission to go to work early and went to the doctor, who told him he had only six months to live.

In a flash, he realized he had wasted his entire existence and wasn’t really living at all. He then becomes naively attached to a young female co-worker (Aimee Lou Wood), and becomes obsessed with building a slum playground that his department has blocked for years.

With a great script by Kazuo Ishiguro, Live of melancholy elegant tone and Nighy, who restrains his signature charm and wit, becomes the wonderfully tragic protagonist who becomes a sort of secular saint. One of the best movies I’ve seen this year.

Rating: Five stars

The strange feeling of being patted Ingoldsby (15A, 97 min)

Classics connoisseurs will surely be familiar with the name Pat Ingoldsby, who for many years sold his poetry books on Westmoreland Street and College Green.

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Leaning back in a chair, sipping coffee, surrounded by helpful signs – ‘poems for sale!’ – Pat is part of the City of Dublin, but also a witness to it.

Overheard conversations skim the surface of his playful work, which catches the heartbeat of the city.

Once Pat was a fixture on children’s television, with shows like Pat’s hat and Pat’s Chatand he also wrote plays that were performed at Peacock.

But in the 1990s, he decided to retire from the limelight and devote himself entirely to poetry: “Having nothing to lose is the most valuable asset I have,” he once said.

In the documentary by Seamus Murphy, Pat reads some of his poems, talks to cats and reflects on his life, returns to his hometown of Malahide to recall his childhood, and the boat trip is particularly evocative. thought he had gone with his father.

Rating: Three stars