He is, along with Hugh Laurie, the most sought-after eccentric and grumpy sarcastic in British cinema.
Clown or grouch of cult English comedies:
Love Actually
,
Good Morning England
,
Indian Palace
,
It was time.
Bill Nighy also knows how to be serious and serious.
And tearing sobs with just a penetrating gaze and an impassive closed face.
The 73-year-old actor demonstrates this majestically in
Vivre
by South African filmmaker Oliver Hermanus, a remake of Akira Kurosawa's classic,
Ikiru
.
Bill Nighy lends his features to Mr. Wiliams.
Widowed out of communication with his son, the man reigns over an urban planning department of the city of London which, a decade after the Blitz, is still healing the wounds of the bombings of the Second World War.
Anxious not to make waves in an oiled and purring administrative machinery, he places the most disturbing files under a pile.
His routine is invariable: every day the same train, the same bowler hat...
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