La vida útil (A Useful Life)

2010 · Movie · 67 min. · Uruguay

Drama

Jorge (45) lives with his parents and has been working at a film archive for 25 years. He does technical jobs, programming work, and hosts a radio show about cinema. The situation is increasingly dire at the film archive and Jorge, who has never worked anywhere else but in film, loses his job. La vida útil tells how Jorge has to change his ways and adapt to a new world. Maybe cinema will help him to survive after all.

Direction Federico Veiroj

Cast Jorge Jellinek · Manuel Martínez Carril · Paola Venditto

Soundtrack Leo Maslíah · Macunaima · Eduardo Fabini

Screenplay Inés Bortagaray · Gonzalo Delgado · Arauco Hernández Holz · Federico Veiroj

Cinematography Arauco Hernández Holz

Original title La vida útil

Also known as A Useful Life