Still Life (2013)

Directors

Uberto Pasolini

Cast

Eddie Marsan, Joanne Froggatt, Karen Drury, Andrew Buchan

The story

John May is a man struggling with loneliness who works the Bona Vacantia office at Kennington Town Hall in London, where his main responsibility is locating the next of kin of people found dead in the district with no will and testament. Most cases are open-and-shut due to lack of leads, but when heirs are located, he often finds them hesitant to organise funerals for the deceased and so has taken to the practice of organising the funerals, writing eulogies for each deceased and attending the funerals himself, usually as the only mourner. His boss finds this practice time-consuming and expensive and so has decided to close his office down…

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