Overrated and overhyped

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Great drama, Subtle acting by Eddie Marsan. Heart warming and a must see. Some of the Brit movies make real sense. and i would say Still life is wonderful drama. It touches heart. Uberto Pasolini made a point to get the story simple and straight to heart.

This is no film with crashing soundtracks, wild rides and fast dialogue. But it still packs a punch. Tremendously moving look at lonely lives and people who are left with no one, during, and at the end of life.How one solitary man can care for those who have died and have no one there for them at the end, makes for quiet watching. Yet, as this very cleverly constructed movie takes you forward, you are drawn and tugged by his silent, heroic dedication and caring. And it goes quite a way beyond the call of his job.The very end is extremely touching and wonderfully moving.

I found this to be a sad but engaging film, with Eddie Marsan perfectly understated in the role of a lonely civil "detective" who devotes his life to finding relatives of the deceased to attend their funerals. With precious little financial reward, this unassuming bureaucrat fights a quiet, personal battle, so that proper respect might be shown to his fellow human beings, no matter how low their standing. Not everyone will like this film, for it is unquestionably slow and devoid of action, and yet it manages to capture the truism that one person can indeed have a positive impact on countless acquaintances merely by showing them common decency and understanding. The ending is a bit contrived, I thought, but did convey a strong message that obscure people can nonetheless leave indelible effects for the better. Eddie Marsan is not your typical leading man, but he handles his role nicely, and sweet Joanne Froggatt is well cast as an endearing young woman whose troubled, embattled father has passed away.

It's a rare film and one of the best I have seen for sometimes. Eddie Marsan, after Vera Drake, Be Happy, proves once more that his a great Actor to play a melancholic Anti-Hero and Uberto Paolini, a descendant of Luchino Visconti, is a sure value of today's cinema. Life is full of ghosts and this powerful film will stay at your side for sometime after you have seen it. Great British film with some winks to the great Italian cinema.It's one of the rare film where people leaved only when they were able to do it? It's a must be seen film.This film is "un bonbon anglais doux-amer" like "E la nave va" (and the ship sails on).