A fierce performance from Dolores Fonzi, as a heroine whose actions baffle those around her, helps to hold this conversation-starter together, but viewers’ own mileage and perceptions will vary — which is clearly by design.
Paulina(La patota)
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Argentina, Brazil, France · 2015
1h 43m
Director Santiago Mitre
Starring Dolores Fonzi, Oscar Martínez, Esteban Lamothe, Cristian Salguero
Genre Drama, Thriller
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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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The film is ultimately frustrating for the unending opacity of Paulina’s psychology.
The Hollywood Reporter by David Rooney
This is a tough film, easier to admire than fully embrace, but its seriousness of purpose and disdain for banal melodrama make it quite arresting.
It's unsettling and disconcerting in its complex examination of the gray area that lies between the morals we conceptually hold and the actions we’re willing to perform to affirm those beliefs in the world.
The New York Times by Ken Jaworowski
Indeed, few satisfying answers arise here. But there’s bravery in asking the questions, and this film knows something about courage.
RogerEbert.com by Simon Abrams
Paulina is, in that sense, worth seeing, even if its basic plot repeatedly stalls. It is a thoughtful movie, but not necessarily a fulfilling one.
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