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6.4/10
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A movie-theater employee adjusts to a new life after the cinema he worked at for over 25 years is forced to shut down.A movie-theater employee adjusts to a new life after the cinema he worked at for over 25 years is forced to shut down.A movie-theater employee adjusts to a new life after the cinema he worked at for over 25 years is forced to shut down.
- Awards
- 8 wins & 6 nominations total
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The first time I saw ''A useful life'' was in a special screening for a group of old critics and journalists. It was in a little theater on a early afternoon. I must confess that I'm a film addicted, however I felt like an alien among all these people who knows film better than me. "A useful life" starts as a old comedy. When Jorge appears using old fashioned technologies, I couldn't contain my laugh because it remind me people and institutions I know in many countries who use audio or video- cassettes tapes and others obsolete media ways to do things, it woke me up tenderness. In the year of 2010 Jorge and his Cinematheque represents an obsolete way of living however it is a real way in many parts of the world. A old fashioned cinema world into the real world, "A Useful Life'' smells this contradiction showing us this bizarre way of living, and reflected warmly. I remembered other films of cinema within the cinema: Cinema Paradise, The Purple Rose of Cairo and my favorite B&W movie: Sunset Boulevard. "A useful life" takes part of this great films list, irony, humor, beauty, and an unusual ending, I like these type of movies. When the film reach its turning point and Jorge starts out his new way of life I felt the energy and enthusiastic expressions of the public, it was incredible! we were happy knowing that he and his way of living can survive, it was a common feeling in the room: cinema can be safe. To people like me, theater, B&W movies, Cinematheques, and movies like "A useful life" cannot disappear, neither dinosaurs.
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Box office
- Budget
- $350,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $21,525
- Runtime1 hour 7 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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