Klara and the Sun is the eighth novel written by Japanese-born British author, Kazuo Ishiguro. It is his second dystopia novel after Never Let Me Go. Klara is an Artificial Friend, or AF for short, an android designed to be a companion to a teenager. Klara becomes fixated on Josie, a girl who sees the […]
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Living Review
Living is a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 drama Ikiru. This remake changes the setting to 1950s London and has Bill Nighy in the lead role. Mr. Williams (Nighy) is a senior bureaucrat at London County Council. His world gets shattered when he gets diagnosed with a terminal illness. With only a limited amount of time to […]
Britflix: Never Let Me Go
2010’s Never Let Me Go was an adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s acclaimed novel of the same name. The adaptation was able to attract some amazing talent in front of and behind the camera. In 1952 there has been a medical breakthrough that allows people to live up to 100 years old. But this health revolution came at a […]