Paulina

Paulina

2015 · 103 min · ES · 6.4 (45 votes)
Dir. Santiago Mitre · Starring Dolores Fonzi, Oscar Martínez, Esteban Lamothe, Cristian Salguero, Verónica Llinás, Laura López Moyano
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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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This film feels like a slow-burn descent into a chillingly real nightmare. It's a raw, unflinching look at resilience in the face of brutal injustice, leaving you with a lingering sense of unease and a profound empathy for its determined protagonist.

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