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Poster for LA VITA ÚTIL

LA VITA ÚTIL

Opens on September 17

Director: Federico Veiroj Run Time: 63 min. Release Year: 2010 Language: Spanish

Starring: Felipe Arocena, Gonzalo Delgado, Jorge Jellinek, Manuel Martinez Carril, Paola Venditto

Jorge has been the film programmer of the Montevideo cinémathèque for 25 years. Because attendance is down, the cinémathèque struggles to make profit and shuts down, leaving Jorge unemployed. With no other skills, he is forced to change his way of life in order to adapt to the new world he faces.

 

“I’ve actually run a film society and this is Dante’s Inferno for me.” Jerry, letterboxd

Low key meditation about the end of auteur cinema, this honest and austere film makes for a splendid tribute to all National Film Theatres, their struggles, utopian vision and dissemination of important films. Never maudlin, it reverberates with intellectual nostalgia, using as backdrop cinema’s inspiration for real-life love and intimacy. Jellinek is admirable as the Sisyphean cinephile before a quiet resignation.” dionysus67, letterboxd

 

 

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