Best film I have seen in years - not usually inspired to write reviewsGenuine - observant - considered - human - respectful - slow enough to focus on what really matters - exposes some of our modern attitudes for their shallowness and small mindedness. Sometimes you have to slow down and enter into someone else's world to see the value in it.A triumph for the value of individual action - what you do in the world matters - even if it seems to go unnoticed.Brilliant acting, directing, music... Brilliant all round! Only heard about it after I asked a film buff relative for her top 5 films of 2015 This was her number one - I agree!!

This is one of the most impressive films I have seen. Not only in the last year but in the last 10 years. Eddie Marson brings a quiet resolve to a role he was born to play. A supporting cast that perfectly fits in with the pace and mood of the film. The premise is unpromising. A civil servant in a dead end job doing a job not appreciated by most. Seen as an anachronism in a modern world he does his job with pen and paper in a computer age. He shows more compassion to the dead than they received in real life. He documents and adds a small meaning to lives otherwise forgotten in a city full of people where people slip through the maelstrom of the frantic world and end up alone. At the end of the film I sat and stared at the blank screen thinking about what I had just seen. The last time I had felt as moved by a film was nearly 10 years ago. I certainly did not expect it to happen last night.

Loved this film until the bus accident, I couldn't take it seriously after that. A bus knocks somebody down and kills them in the UK for every 27 million miles travelled. How likely is it that somebody as meticulous as John May would be standing there at the time? 66% of people in the UK don't believe in ghosts, so like me they won't buy into the final scene. Take the ghosts away and all you are left with is a cruel irony, a lonely man spends his life trying to get people to care enough to go to the funerals of other socially isolated people who died alone, probably because of his fear of this happening to him, and then nobody goes to his. I watched a beautifully acted, nuanced, poignant film for 1 hour 20 minutes followed by a load of rubbish for the last 10 minutes. Don't think I've ever been so disappointed by the ending of a film.

What a surprise this film was. Found it to be so poignant and moving. A simple story about a lonely man who creates meaning in his own life - and the lives of others - through honoring their story. It's a real statement about how limited acting awards selections are when a performance as beautifully realized as Eddie Marsan's doesn't get recognized. Yes, its slow - patient as the character was in finding the nuance in every life he sought to piece together. Hang in there. The ending was a surprise. Like several reviewers, we were emotionally blind- sided and deeply moved. Still Life is a gem!