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Film · 2015

Paulina

Original titleLa Patota

Directed by Santiago Mitre · starring Ezequiel Díaz, Dolores Fonzi and Oscar Martínez

  • 1 h 43 min
  • 18
  • Thriller · Suspense · Drama
  • ArgentinaBrazil
  • Released in the UK 10 October 2015
  • 7.7 AverageMovieNCo
  • 7.2 Users6 votes
  • 8.3 Critics10 reviews

Synopsis

Paulina is a young lawyer who comes back to the city, Buenos Aires, in order to do social work. She works in a project defending the Human Rights in shanty town at the outside the city. Her father, Fernando, is a well known judge. At her second week working, a young criminal band in Argentina, known as 'patota', attacks her. People doesn't recommend it, but she decides to go back to work. This is a remake of the classical Argentinean movie 'La Patota'. 'La Patota' was directed by Daniel Tinayre, was starring by Mirtha Legrand. At this new version the actress in the main role is Dolores Fonzi, and It's directed by Santiago Mitre. Based on the screenplay of Eduardo Borrás is written by Mariano Llinás and Santiago Mitre.

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Paulina is not on any service in the UK right now. It can be watched in other countries:

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The essentials

Runtime
103 min1 hour and 43 minutes
Budget
€10mLa Unión de los Ríos
Rating
18Suitable only for adults
How long is Paulina?
1 hour and 43 minutes (103 minutes).
When was Paulina released in the UK?
It was released in the UK on 10 October 2015.
Who directed Paulina?
Santiago Mitre.
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Director
Santiago Mitre

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Reviews

All 10 reviews
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What the critics say average 8.3 from 10 outlets

  • 10 FotogramasGerard A. Cassadó "To Santiago Mitre, politics is the religion of our age, and therefore its Paulina (a stony Dolores Fonzi) continues to take little understandable decisions (...)." Read
  • 9.0 ClarinPablo O. Scholz Political idealisms, militancy, appearances, adapting or not to the rules, the position of a father before his daughter, the need for justice, revanchismo, power and solidarity, everything is… Read
  • 8.8 El PaísJordi Costa The film credits Santiago Miter as a fierce provocateur agent of a political cinema. [...] It could be disputed with Pablo Larraín's 'The Club', or Nadav Lapid's 'The Kindergarden Teacher', the… Read
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