Paulina

Paulina

Directed by Santiago Mitre

Produced by La Unión de los Ríos, Lita Stantic Producciones

2015103 min6.4 / 10

A dark, psychologically tense thriller about a rape survivor's struggle for justice and agency in a system that fails her, set against the backdrop of class and institutional corruption in Argentina.

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.

Questions people ask

  • Is Paulina scary? Yes, very. More frightening than 94% of films.

  • Is Paulina sad? Yes. More sad than 88% of films.

  • Is Paulina violent? Yes. More violent than 80% of films.

  • Is Paulina easy watching? Not especially. Less comforting than 74% of films.

  • Does Paulina end with hope? Not especially. Less hopeful than 70% of films.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

29/ 100

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Love40

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