directed by Uberto Pasolini, United Kingdom, Italy, 2013, 92 min
 

Followed by an encounter with Loredana Micati and the director
 

What traces do we leave behind us? Our fingerprints in a jar of face cream, the shape of our head on a pillow, a handful of letters, photographs of a past either faded or inhabited only by the cat’s pretty little face? With deep poetic density, this astonishing film summarises the fate – a fate of exclusion – that contemporary life has in store for us in the tale of a scrupulous local authority civil servant tasked with rebuilding the past of people who have died in total solitude, collecting and probing their personal effects in order to discover any relatives and to arrange a final good-bye that is neither desolate nor anonymous. Just as the ancient Egyptians’ Book of the Dead accompanied the deceased on their journey from earthly life into the afterlife, testifying to their conduct in this life before the ultimate divine judge, so this incredible figure, the last priest of a piteous ritual that modernity has denied us, recomposes the detritus of poor lives on earth and ferries them towards an eternity that he feels will be less desolate.

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