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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 diminishin...

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Main Authors: Maslíah, Leo (Composer), Fabini, Eduardo, 1882-1950 (Composer)
Other Authors: Veiroj, Federico, 1976- (Screenwriter), Hernández, Arauco (Screenwriter), Bortagaray, Inés, 1975- (Screenwriter), Delgado Galiana, Gonzalo (Screenwriter), Jellinek, Jorge (Actor), Martínez Carril, M. (Actor), Venditto, Paola (Actor), Ogueta, María (Actor), Radzewicz, Diego (Actor), Varela, Omar (Actor)
Format: Video
Language:Spanish
Language Notes:In Spanish, with English subtitles.
Published: San Francisco : Global Lens, [2010]
Series:Global lens collection.
Subjects:
Motion picture theaters > Drama.
Unemployed > Drama.
Motion picture theaters.
Unemployed.
Feature films
Drama.
Fiction films.
Internet videos.
Feature films.
Feature films > Uruguay.
Feature films > Spain.
Foreign language films > Spanish.
Vidéos sur Internet.
Films de fiction.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Originally produced as a motion picture in 2010.
Released as part of a 10-DVD set entitled "Global Lens 2011". The set also includes a bonus CD-ROM with discussion guides and background information for each film.
Description from videodisc version; title from title screen (viewed November 24, 2014).
Physical Description:1 online resource (76 min., 1 video file)
Playing Time:01:15:43
Awards:Nominated 2011 Cartagena Film Festival Golden India Catalina Award, Best Film; Won 2010 Havana Film Festival Grand Coral First Prize, Best Film; Won 2011 Istanbul International Film Festival Special Prize of the Jury, International Competition; Won 2011 Lima Latin American Film Festival Critics Award, Special Mention
Production Credits:Cinematography, Arauco Hernández ; editing, Arauco Hernández, Federico Veiroj ; music, Eduardo Fabini, Macunaima, Leo Masliah.