The Station Agent

“Loneliness is much better when you have got someone to share it with.”

Nobody in the small New Jersey town can work out why Finbar McBride (Peter Dinklage) has come to live alone in an abandoned train depot. His only friend has died, and he wants to be left alone. A chatty hot dog vendor, Joe Oramas (Bobby Cannavale), and Olivia Harris (Patricia Clarkson), a woman grieving a loss of her own, keep turning up. Tom McCarthy, in his first film as a director, keeps the camera still and lets the three of them take their time.