Still Life

Film - 2013

8,6

98.2K

Still Life it's a movie with Eddie Marsan, Joanne Froggatt, Karen Drury, Andrew Buchan, Neil D'Souza Full cast. Directed by Uberto Pasolini. Original title Still Life Genre Drama.

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Riccardo Paoli

Still life by Umberto Pasolini On Replay, which is one of the few non-paid platforms, there are unmissable films hidden, like this little gem that is Still-lifeJohn May, the protagonist around whom the whole story revolves, is a municipal employee who deals with, and is concerned with giving a dignified burial to the forgotten dead: he reconstructs their history through the objects and photographs he finds in their uninhabited homes, he sets out in search of relatives, and attends, alone, the funeral functions, as well as the burial, with the aim of making the death of people often forgotten by everyone in life dignified. However, John May is an equally lonely man, precise to the point of maniacality, absolutely habitual as well as good. Then something happens that forces him to relate to life in a different way .Still life is a film absolutely worth seeing. It is delicate and spontaneous even in dealing with challenging themes such as love and death. Read all

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Roberto Flauto

John May is a special man. He embroiders details of lives and days, collecting the details, inventing their nuances. His job consists of tracking down the relatives of people who died in total solitude. But he goes further, he always goes further (like only certain poets or certain nights). He loves, regardless. He immerses himself in memories that he saves from oblivion. He continues indomitable in his very personal fight against the entropy of feelings. He relentlessly searches for people he doesn't know, and he doesn't do it for professional reasons: he goes beyond that. He is that poet, he is that night. He celebrates everything, for the very fact that it exists and that it happens: his is a devastating love for life. He loves her by taking care of death. We will never fully understand what stirs at the bottom of a heart like his. John lives with an intensity that I don't know, that I will never know, on frequencies that I can barely imagine. He belongs to that invisible category of heroes who can only be unknown. John collects infinite deaths, dispenses interminable lives. He takes charge of all the nothingness that he finds, thus composing the mosaic of his nonexistence. Then one day they tell him that his office, due to the economic crisis, is about to be closed. “You're slow,” they tell him. "Take it as a new opportunity." John convinces his boss to give him a few days so he can complete his latest case, that of an alcoholic who died in total solitude a few steps from his house. His name is Billy Stoke. John's job is to look for clues, to investigate the absence, to inspect nuances. A rummaging through objects and old stories, an immersion in time, in the sense of abandonment, of petals in a plastic wind. When does someone who dies in complete solitude die? I'm talking about that isolation made up of demonic crowds of Read all

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Screencrash

Why deal with people who died alone, and collect the few remaining traces? Why look for their relatives, who don't even want to see them anymore, even at the moment of saying their final goodbyes? Perhaps because only death gives meaning to life and eternity lasts only until someone remembers us. Or until the photos in an album are faded. Read all