If you want to see a great acting performance, watch Bill Nighy in "Living", on Netflix.
The accomplished British actor is at his best in this quiet movie, an adaptation of the 1952 film "Ikiru" by Akira Kurosawa, which was based on a novel by Leo Tolstoy.
Pretty good names with which to be connected.
It is the story of a bureaucrat in England, shuffling papers endlessly, who learns that he has a terminal illness and then begins to live his life.
Nighy is amazing, displaying an entire range of emotions, especially in a scene in a darkened living room where he relives moments from his life telling each story with only his facial expressions.
As I said to Judy last night as we watched, "Now *that's* acting!"
But you don't need to take my word for it.
Nighy is nominated this year in the Best Actor category for the Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild award, and a BAFTA (Britain's equivalent of an Oscar) by the British Film Association.
I've long been a fan of Nighy but he proves his worth in this film.
