InVoluntary Retirements

On July 2nd 2008 at five thirty in the afternoon a 53yearold man called JeanMichel was run over by a train in SaintLyé a town with a population of 3000 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 JeanMichel 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 JeanMichels life that connects him to Argentinahe had been an employee at a phone company until a privatization left him without a job InVoluntary Retirements is a documentary that shows how the kinship between Argentinas politics in the 90s and Frances twenty years later damaged the lives of so many people