Silent B/W 16mm film depicting Thomas Cole's fourth stage of an empire - Destruction, before the final stage - Desolation. Macro shots of obsolete tools symbolize the end of the United States as a country of industrial manufacturing and production, leading to its role as a society based purely on consumption.
Rated 7.0 on TMDB
London, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city's bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless. Then a devastating medical diagnosis forces him to take stock, and to try and grasp some fulfilment before it passes permanently beyond reach.
