paullychick For me, this film doesn't put a foot wrong. The colours are sombre, the cinematography beautiful, the music haunting - just enough of it and well chosen - and the acting is flawless. Eddie Marsan conjures up yet another truly believable character -what an actor. In fact every actor has his or her part to play in this film as the ending clearly indicates.The subject matter is deeply fitting for a fragmented society such as ours but a tiny ray of hope exists in the loneliness of the people portrayed within, even though you've been thrown off balance. The ending is truly touching. This film will stay with you and I hope you will be left wondering why it didn't get more attention on its release - no special effects and explosions I suppose, just a well scripted and superbly acted independent film.

Tony Connell 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.

Tom Dooley Eddie Marsan plays Mr. May who worked for London Borough of Kennington as the man who traces the relatives of people who have died alone. He then arranges for their 'send offs' often being the only person in attendance. He has no family and struggles to understand those that have what he does not have and yet readily shun it. Then his obnoxious boss tells him they are 'downsizing' the department and merging with a neighbouring council. He is told to close the case on his last assignment and clear out. He decides he will find out who this lonely man was and he sets out on a journey to discover this man's past and in so doing he starts to live himself.This is just a wonderful film – full of hope, loneliness, pathos and even love. Marsan is always excellent and here he carries the film, but is supported by a cast who are all excellent too – Joanne Froggatt as Kelly Stoke brings real warmth and humanity to a role which sees her with limited screen time – so is all the more noticeable for it. This is a film for people who think, who care and who want to understand more about life and death – absolutely recommended.

christian-664-202234 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).