Still Life (2013)

The sole member of his department, Eddie Marsan’s job concentrates on attempting to locate the next of kin for dead residents. Living an entirely solitary life himself that parallels the lives of the people he researches, it all gets disrupted when his last case is for a neighbor at the same time his job is being downsized for being too expensive and time consuming. It’s premise is very similar to the novel How Not to be Alone. The film manages to be a gentle reflection on loneliness and death. The film rests entirely on Marsan’s shoulders and he does an incredible job conveying the closed off loneliness of his character as he slowly begins to open to something more.