Oliver Hermanus' 2022 drama Living arrives on K-Time as a quietly staged character study, built around Bill Nighy's lead performance and a supporting cast that includes Aimee Lou Wood and Alex Sharp.
What is Living (Zhit) about?
The film follows an unassuming man navigating the routines of mid-century English life, with an ensemble built around Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp, Tom Burke, Adrian Rawlins, Oliver Chris, Michael Cochrane and Zoe Boyle filling out his world of colleagues and family. Rather than build toward a single incident, Living stays close to manners, restraint and the quiet exchanges of office and home, the kind of texture that a short plot summary tends to flatten. K-Time's listing credits the production jointly to the United Kingdom, Japan and Sweden, an international backing that sits behind a story that otherwise stays distinctly English in setting and tone.
About the cast
Bill Nighy anchors the film opposite Aimee Lou Wood and Alex Sharp, with Tom Burke, Adrian Rawlins, Oliver Chris, Michael Cochrane and Zoe Boyle rounding out the ensemble. Between them the cast spans stage-trained character actors and younger performers better known from television, a mix that suits a drama pitched at conversational scale rather than spectacle.
Context & significance
Living sits in a run of British dramas from the early 2020s that favour restraint over incident, directed by Oliver Hermanus, whose patient, unhurried camera carries over from his earlier work into how this film is shot and paced. At 119 minutes it runs a touch longer than the genre's average, giving scenes room to breathe rather than compressing the story into a tighter frame. IMDb users have rated it well within the 7-range, a reception consistent with a film built for viewers who prefer character study to plot mechanics.
Watching Living (Zhit) on Ktime
Living streams on K-Time with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles available, so the film can be watched either fully localized or with the original English performances intact and Farsi text alongside. Reading this page requires nothing, and watching only asks for a free K-Time account login, with no separate purchase or trial commitment attached to that step. The Farsi-first interface around the player is built for the diaspora audience the platform serves, from search through to the watch page itself.