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''A Useful Life'' () is a 2010 Uruguayan
drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...
about the love of film, directed by
Federico Veiroj Federico Veiroj (born 1976 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. Veiroj studied communications at the UCUDAL. Two of his films have been submitted for the Academy Award for Best International Feature F ...
and shot in
black-and-white Black-and-white (B&W or B/W) images combine black and white to produce a range of achromatic brightnesses of grey. It is also known as greyscale in technical settings. Media The history of various visual media began with black and white, ...
. The film was selected as the Uruguayan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the
83rd Academy Awards The 83rd Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2010 in the United States and took place on February 27, 2011, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, be ...
but it did not make the final shortlist.


Plot

Set in
Montevideo Montevideo (, ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2023 census, the city proper has a population of 1,302,954 (about 37.2% of the country's total population) in an area of . M ...
's legendary
Cinemateca Uruguaya Cinemateca Uruguaya (''Uruguayan Cinematheque'') is a non-profit cinematheque in Montevideo, Uruguay, established in 1952, that aims to support the cultural development of Cinematography, cinema, and of art in general. Since its inception, it has ...
, it is the story about the closure of a
cinematheque A cinematheque is an archive of films and film-related objects with an exhibition venue. Similarly to a book library (bibliothèque in French), a cinematheque is responsible for preserving and making available to the public film heritage. Typically ...
with the same name due to financial difficulties, and how it affects its film loving middle manager Jorge (played by film critic-turned-actor Jorge Jellinek), who has worked there for 25 years. At first he is overwhelmed by the prospect of having no profession or purpose, and drifts around in Montevideo. But eventually he realises that nothing can kill his love for film, so he ends the day by taking his love interest to the cinema. Although the story is fiction, Cinemateca Uruguaya, which celebrated 50 years in 2012, is besieged by financial problems, and its director Manuel Martínez Carril agreed to play himself in the film.Indiwire: ''A Useful Life''
Linked 25 October 2013


Cast

* Jorge Jellinek as Jorge * Manuel Martinez Carril as Martínez * Paola Venditto as Paola


Awards

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Istanbul Film Festival The Istanbul Film Festival () is the first and oldest international film festival in Turkey, organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts. It is held every year in April in movie theaters in Istanbul, Turkey. As mentioned in its reg ...
- Special Jury Prize ex-aequo *
Havana Film Festival The Havana Film Festival is a Cuban festival that focuses on the promotion of Latin American filmmakers. It is also known in Spanish as ''Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana,'' and in English as International Festiv ...
/New Latin American Cinema of La Havana - Coral Grand Prize, Best Film *
Warsaw International Film Festival Warsaw Film Festival (; WFF), also known as Warsaw International Film Festival, is an annual international film festival held every October in Warsaw, Poland. The 40th edition of the festival will take place from 11 to 20 October 2024. Histor ...
- Special Mention


See also

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List of submissions to the 83rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film This is a list of submissions to the 83rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Be ...
* List of Uruguayan submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film


References


External links

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Indiwire: ''A Useful Life''
Linked 2013-10-25 {{DEFAULTSORT:Useful Life 2010 films 2010 drama films Uruguayan drama films Uruguayan black-and-white films Films set in a movie theatre Films set in Montevideo Films shot in Uruguay 2010s Spanish-language films 2010s Uruguayan films