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Paulina

2015 · 103 min

A cold, unsettling moral drama that keeps you tense and uneasy, forcing you to sit with uncomfortable choices long after it ends.

Directed by
Santiago Mitre
Genres
Drama, Thriller
Starring
Dolores Fonzi, Oscar Martínez, Esteban Lamothe
Overview
Paulina is a young lawyer with a promising career in Buenos Aires, who chooses to go back to her home town. Her father, Fernando, is a well known judge. Against his will, Paulina decides to teach in a suburban high school as part of an inclusion program. One night, after the second week working there, she's brutally assaulted by a gang. With the disapproval of the people around her, she decides to go back to work, in the neighborhood where she was attacked, without realizing that her attackers may be even closer than she thought.

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Directed by
Santiago Mitre
Genres
Drama, Thriller
Starring
Dolores Fonzi, Oscar Martínez, Esteban Lamothe
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How it feels

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Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • justice
    • trauma
    • class
    • power
    • gender
    Places
    • big city
    • suburbs
    • school
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore mild
    • Language mild
    • Violence strong
    • Sex strong
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action2
    Horror3
    Humour1
    Realism8
    Romance2
    Tension7
    Darkness8
    Complexity7
    Emotional weight9

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    Details

    Genres
    drama, thriller
    Directed by
    Santiago Mitre
    Written by
    Mariano Llinás, Santiago Mitre
    Starring
    Dolores Fonzi, Oscar Martínez, Esteban Lamothe, Cristian Salguero, Verónica Llinás, Laura López Moyano, Ezequiel Díaz, Andrea Quattrocchi
    Cinematography
    Gustavo Biazzi
    Runtime
    103 min
    Country
    France, Argentina, Brazil
    Languages
    Guarani, Spanish

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