A Lucky Day (Spanish: Un día de suerte) is a 2002 Argentine and Italian film directed by Sandra Gugliotta, her first feature film, and written by Gugliotta and Marcelo Schapces. In Argentina it's also known as Lo que buscas es amor. The executive producer was Marcelo Schapces, and produced by Sandra Gugliotta and Fernando Merinero.
It features Valentina Bassi as Elsa. The theme of this docudrama is the economic turmoil and unemployment among the young in Argentina that occurred from 1999-2002. The film won two awards at the Berlin International Film Festival: the Caligari Film Award and the Don Quixote Award.
In 2000, Elsa (Valentina Bassi), a 25-year-old woman who barely makes a living as a promotional girl on the streets in Buenos Aires, commits minor crimes, like stealing from her boss' wallet, in order to survive. As a promotional girl, she does what can be considered humiliating work: handing out flyers for "anti-stress" tablets for motorists and pedestrians, dressing up in odd outfits for fast-food restaurants, and the like.
During the film, protests take place in the streets of Buenos Aires but Elsa ignores them. Included are documentary-like scenes of the 2001 riots that
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