A Useful Life

2010 [SPANISH]

Drama

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 48% · 17 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 48% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 1094 1.1K

cinema on cinema

Plot summary

A movie-theater employee adjusts to a new life as the cinema he's worked at for over 25 years faces closure.

Director

Federico Veiroj Photo
Federico Veiroj

Top cast

Gonzalo Delgado Photo
Gonzalo Delgado
Felipe Arocena Photo
Felipe Arocena as Iriarte Hijo
Jorge Jellinek Photo
Jorge Jellinek as Jorge
Manuel Martinez Carril Photo
Manuel Martinez Carril as Martínez
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606.15 MB
952*720
Spanish 2.0
NR
Subtitles us   fr  
24 fps
1 hr 5 min
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1.1 GB
1426*1078
Spanish 2.0
NR
Subtitles us   fr  
24 fps
1 hr 5 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Errington_92

The Cinema is not a collection of cards, a connection of data

Reviewed by dedalus7632 7 / 10

poetry in renewal

Profused with South American melancholia, the setup for this short film is a club dedicated to 'classical' film, with radio lectures on Eisenstein and live, in-theater translations (into Spanish), of classics, Von Stroheim's 'Greed,' for example. With the demise of the club, after some 20 years, the somber yet not unattractive manager must face his own options. And, as he steps out, he creates his own film. The irony in the picture is expressed in an amazing 'spontaneous' lecture the manager gives to a classroom of law students, opportunistically posing as their substitute professor. He touches on the ubiquity of illusion and 'lying' in life-- 'reality' vrs. metaphor, or in this case, film. The character of the manager is no Astaire when he dances, and there's no Minnelli behind the camera, but we get the picture, and when he connects with the girl, he goes to the movies. A reference in the credits to Mark Twain as the inspiration for the work; the minimalist writing and direction stay focused, the editing is good and the film stays with you. Worth seeing.
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