Still Life

2013

Action / Drama

31
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 63% · 43 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 77% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.4/10 10 9856 9.9K

alone loneliness death forgotten funerals south london

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Plot summary

A council case worker looks for the relatives of those found dead and alone.

Director

Uberto Pasolini Photo
Uberto Pasolini

Top cast

Justin Hayward Photo
Justin Hayward as Priest
Lee Nicholas Harris Photo
Lee Nicholas Harris as Police Chief Superintendant
Gino Picciano Photo
Gino Picciano as Smoking Man
Karen Drury Photo
Karen Drury as Mary
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849.18 MB
1280*682
English 2.0
TV-14
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 6
1.53 GB
1920*1024
English 2.0
TV-14
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

Eddie Marsan is on good form in this

Eddie Marsan is on good form in this sensitive drama about council worker "May". He is tasked with dealing with the affairs of those people who die without a family. He's a meticulous chap, fastidious even, and he takes great care to investigate as thoroughly as he can trying to find someone to take possession of their heirlooms and to attend the rudimentary cremation that the local borough provides. He is midway through the case of "Billy Stoke" when he is informed that he is to be made redundant. Instead of just packing up, though, he asks for some extra time to try and piece together the jigsaw puzzle left by this man - and that sees him travel to meet "Kelly" (Joanne Froggatt) - his long estranged daughter. As with so many of the stories contained here, we hear a tale of neglect and abuse followed by a long period of non-contact, and Marsan plays his part delicately as he allows his character to provide a poignant conduit for relatives to think on their best and final course of action at a time when maybe grudges are best forgotten. There's an honesty to this because they aren't always - there are no rose-tinted windows here, especially at the end (which I have to say, the irony of which I simply didn't like). This film serves to put many things into perspective and might be something that could give folks whose family's are no longer part of their lives a chance to consider getting letting bygones be bygones. There is something poignant about the only mourner at a funeral being an official doing a day's work! It's an interesting investment vehicle for RAI too, garnering a David nomination but nothing at all from BAFTA.
Reviewed by vincenzo-8 8 / 10

Will please all the true movie lovers

A great movie about discipline, responsibility and the importance of performing at your best whatever task you have to carry out. An important message in times of complain, protest and nihilism. The director powerfully uses images more and better than the dialogue. In this respect, he stands aside the great masters of the past (one name: Alfred Hitchcock, quite explicitly quoted in the movie) and won't fail to please all the true movie lovers. All actors are great, but it is the compassionate eye of the director that wins the scene. The soundtrack is also adding to the atmosphere and does its job remarkably well. Should I add that I truly enjoyed this little masterpiece?
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