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Cast
- Eddie MarsanJohn May
- Joanne FroggattKelly Stoke
- Karen DruryMary
- Andrew BuchanMr Pratchett
- Neil D'SouzaShakthi
- Tim PotterHomeless Man
- Michael ElkinCaretaker
- Paul AndersonHomeless Man
- Bronson WebbMorgue Attendant
- Lee Nicholas HarrisPolice Chief Superintendant
Recommendations
- 75
New York Post
Director Uberto Pasolini (“Machan”) has a gem in Marsan, a virtuoso actor who plays the role delicately where another might have laid on the pathos too thick. - 63
Slant Magazine
Its fixation on life's quotidian aspects gives way to a less imaginative focus on an inevitable and overly familiar romance. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
The plot begs for a jolt of the Charlie Kaufmanesque — it's so pillow-smothered by tedium that even the uplift of magic realism in the film's final shot seems cold and stiff. - 50
The A.V. Club
While Still Life remains relatively successful at sustaining its plainly downbeat atmosphere—and at conveying the deep silence and stifled yearning of days and nights spent profoundly alone—it brooks too little subtlety in navigating many of the plot’s larger-picture developments. - 42
The Playlist
The inescapably precious Still Life doesn’t deal in anything as truthful, complex and difficult as empathy; its only currency is pity, and that is the basest coin of all. - 40
Village Voice
When it's all over, Still Life feels disembodied and perfunctory, like a very respectful eulogy for no one in particular. - 40
The Dissolve
Marsan does his best to convey his character’s essential decency, but he’s hamstrung by Pasolini’s insistence on underscoring the emptiness of John’s existence at every opportunity. - 40
Time Out
Still Life constantly threatens to become a better movie: John’s scrutiny of photos feels vaguely serial-killer–esque, and there’s a late-inning love interest (Downton Abbey’s Joanne Froggatt) that you privately cheer for.
