(In)Voluntary Retirements
7.5
On July 2nd, 2008, at five thirty in the afternoon, a 53-year-old man called Jean-Michel was run over by a train in Saint-Lyé, a town with a population of 3,000 located in the east of France. No one knew whether it was a suicide or an accident. The director investigates around the town, asks different inhabitants what they think of that tragedy. For many people, Jean-Michel had killed himself, after amassing too many worries and problems; the more the voiceover asks, the more mysterious it all gets. But there is a detail from Jean-Michel’s life that connects him to Argentina—he had been an employee at a phone company until a privatization left him without a job. (In)Voluntary Retirements is a documentary that shows how the kinship between Argentina’s politics in the ‘90s and France’s twenty years later damaged the lives of so many people.
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Sandra Gugliotta Director · Miguel Zeballos Writer Juan Loustaunau Editor
First release November 23, 2020 · Produced in Argentina · Languages French, Spanish
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Ojo Blindado
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996 films
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Argentina
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Original title
Retiros (in)voluntarios
Original language
Spanish
Spoken on screen
French · Spanish
Release dates
Argentina · November 23, 2020
Premiere · 35º Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata
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