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Still Life moves with a quiet grace that some viewers may mistake for mannered passivity, but rewards patience with genuine poignancy. Read critic reviews

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A mild-mannered civil employee (Eddie Marsan) dedicates his life to tracking down the next-of-kin of and arranging funerals for his community's unclaimed dead.
  • Genre:
    drama
  • Original Language:
    English (United Kingdom)
  • Director:
    Uberto Pasolini
  • Writer:
    Uberto Pasolini
  • Release Date (Theaters):
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  • Production Co:
    Redwave Films, Embargo Films, Rai Cinema

Cast & Crew

Eddie Marsan
John May
Joanne Froggatt
Kelly Stoke
Karen Drury
Mary
Andrew Buchan
Council Manager
Neil D'Souza
Shakthi
Michael Elkin
Caretaker
Ciaran McIntyre
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Wayne Foskett
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Uberto Pasolini
Director
Uberto Pasolini
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Uberto Pasolini
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Critic Reviews for Still Life

All Critics (42) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (27) | Rotten (15)

  • I was unprepared for the transcendent final moments, which left me suddenly and unexpectedly in tears.

    February 8, 2015 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

    Mark Kermode

    Observer (UK)

  • This is a gentle, well-observed drama with a very likeable performance from Marsan.

    February 5, 2015 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

    Geoffrey Macnab

    Independent (UK)

  • I was intrigued by the prospect of the always-compelling Eddie Marsan playing a dull south London council funeral administrator in Still Life.

    February 5, 2015 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

    Kate Muir

    Times (UK)

  • It is a sad, muted film, speckled with many poignant and shrewd little visual touches about what solitude feels like.

    February 5, 2015 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

    Peter Bradshaw

    Guardian

  • The presence of the great Eddie Marsan can't save this ponderous and sentimental Brit film about death and dying.

    February 5, 2015 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

    David Jenkins

    Little White Lies

  • This mopey British drama (2013) trades in easy ironies and self-satisfied humanism, throwing in a little ugly-duckling romance.

    February 2, 2015 | Full Review…

    J. R. Jones

    Chicago Reader
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  • Oct 14, 2014
    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.
    Carlos M Super Reviewer
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