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Paula

2022 · 93 min

A quiet, painful plunge into a teenager's loneliness, where online validation curdles into self-destruction and the viewer feels every inch of her isolation.

Overview
Seeking belonging through an anonymous blog, a self-conscious fourteen-year-old girl exposes her personal life online and spirals down a destructive path toward eating disorders in her desperate search for self-acceptance.
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • isolation
  • coming-of-age
  • loneliness
  • media
Places
  • big city
  • home
  • school
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror2
Humour2
Realism8
Romance2
Tension5
Darkness7
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
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Directed by
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Written by
Daniela De Francesco, Florencia Wehbe
Starring
Lucía Castro, Lara Griboff, Julieta Montes, Tiziana Faleschini, Liz Correa, Beto Bernuez, Astor Daga, María Belén Pistone
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Runtime
93 min
Country
Argentina, Italy
Languages
Spanish

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