Abandoned well blade and soul8/28/2023 Distinctly ungeeky in its cinephilia, A Useful Life, like the aforementioned films, upends the sentimental nostalgia of so many homage a cinema by being itself rather than a love letter to something else. Should we be worried, or at the very least troubled and sad, that the amount of melancholy homages to dying film theaters keep coming? (Or perhaps even sadder, the films either die at the box office or aren’t even picked up for distribution, some kind of horrible irony.) Federico Veiroj’s wonderfully trim and sensitive record of working at a place-and that place happens to be a cinema-is another elegiac entry in a micro-genre being slowly carved out by such filmmakers as Tsai Ming-liang ( Goodbye, Dragon Inn) and Lisandro Alonso ( Fantasma) which explore the soon-to-be-abandoned spaces that will soon be inhabited only by the ghosts of cinema. 0204 A Useful Life (Federico Veiroj, Uruguay)
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