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Still Life (2015)
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Critic Consensus: Still Life moves with a quiet grace that some viewers may mistake for mannered passivity, but rewards patience with genuine poignancy.
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as John May
as Kelly
as Mary
as Shakthi
as Council Manager
as Jumbo
as Caretaker
as Billy Stokes' Caretaker
as Homeless Man
as Homeless Man
as Morgue Attendant
as Crematorium Attendant
as Prison Officer
as Fishmonger
as Mary's Daughter
as Priest
as Miss Pilger
as Cemetery Attendant
as Unhappy Neighbor
as Dog Owner
as Girl at Station
as Young Soldier
as Factory Worker
as Serving Girl
as Cemetery Manager
as Child
as Priest
as Priest
as Priest
as Priest
as Cemetery Attendant
as Eastern Celebrant
as Cemetery Attendant
as Office Cleaner
as Cemetery Attendant
as Billy Stoke
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Critic Reviews for Still Life
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This mopey British drama (2013) trades in easy ironies and self-satisfied humanism, throwing in a little ugly-duckling romance.
Marsan's technical precision as an actor is formidable, and he's wonderful to watch. But when the material's synthetic, as it is here, you wish Marsan could bust loose at the expense of the movie's obsessively orderly nature.
A soulful if obvious meditation on lives lived unshared, and one man's dedication to righting those wrongs while neglecting his own life.
The film's title says lots about its mood and style, which is heavy on becalmed views of rooms, objects like an apple peel and office utensils, and May's glazed gazes at nothing in particular.
Pasolini has a gem in Marsan, a virtuoso actor who plays the role delicately where another might have laid on the pathos too thick.
You may scold yourself for investing any emotion at all in hokum that even Mr. Marsan, for all his kindly gravity, can't begin to salvage.
Audience Reviews for Still Life
Nuanced even in its smallest details, and with an impressive performance by Eddie Marsan and a precious art direction that tells a lot about his character, this subtle film is also a delicate study on death and loneliness, although it ends with an abrupt, anticlimactic conclusion.
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