In 2022’s Living , Bill Nighy played a dapper old gent grappling with his mortality amid the realisation life has largely passed him by. In many ways, Argentinian director Pablo Trapero’s English language debut & Sons is the equal and opposite of that film, following a broken, decrepit husk of a man who has long-since achieved everything he ever wanted.

Nighy plays AN Dyer – the world-renowned author of novels including Saturn’s Salute – as an exaggerated cross between Kingsley Amis and Alasdair Gray. He’s a grotesque figure, shambling through his days in a drunken, bad-tempered haze, his towering intellect matched only by his endless self pity. Essentially a toddler with a beard, he’s grudgingly looked after by his European housekeeper and his youngest son Andrew (Noah Jupe), who dre

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