[Peace] film: A Useful Life (Global Lens film) Thursday, October 20, 5:30pm at the YMCA on campus

[Karen Medina]

A USEFUL LIFE (Global Lens Film)
Thurs, 10/20 | 5:30pm | University Y: Latzer Hall | FREE
1001 South Wright Street | Champaign, IL

A movie-theater employee adjusts to a new life after the cinema he
worked at for over 25 years is forced to shut down.

After twenty-five years, Cinemateca Uruguaya’s most devoted employee,
Jorge (real-life Uruguayan critic Jorge Jellinek), still finds his
inspiration in caring for the films and audiences that grace the seats
and screen of his beloved arthouse cinema. But when dwindling
attendance and diminishing support force the theater to close its
doors, Jorge is sent into a world he knows only through the lens of
art—and suddenly forced to discover a new passion that transcends his
once-celluloid reality. Stylishly framed in black-and-white with
brilliantly understated performances, Federico Veiroj’s sly and loving
homage to the soul of cinema is a universally appealing gem and
knowing charmer about life after the movies.