Inés Bortagaray

Inés Bortagaray

50 (1975-05-22)
Salto, Uruguay

Inés Bortagaray (Salto, 1975) is a Uruguayan screenwriter, book author, and teacher. She has written several award-winning films, including A Useful Life (2010) and Invisible Life (2019).

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Invisible Life 2019 (7.828)

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1950. In the conservative home of the Gusmão family, Eurídice and Guida are two inseparable sisters who support each other. While Guida can share with her younger sister the details of her romantic adventures, Eurídice finds in her older sister the encouragement she needs to pursue her dream of becoming a professional pianist.
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A Useful Life 2010 (6.2)

A movie-theater employee adjusts to a new life as the cinema he's worked at for over 25 years faces closure.
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My Friend from the Park 2015 (6.412)

While her filmmaker husband works in Chile, harried young mother Liz struggles to take care of her infant son. Feeling out of place amongst the tight-knit group of other parents at the park, doubted by her husband, and judged by her newly hired nanny, Liz is drawn to factory worker Rosa, a plain-talking single mother she meets at the swings one day. Despite Liz’s liberation upon finding a bold new confidante, the friends’ increasingly apparent class differences, along with swirling rumors about Rosa’s motives and muddy family situation, feed Liz’s suspicions that her new pal might be a sinister influence on her already fragile life.