After winning the Grand Prize in the Critics’ Week section, Santiago Mitre’s Paulina (La Patota) was awarded by Fipresci too. The Argentinean film stars Dolorès Fonzi as a promising young lawyer who ditches a hot shot career in Buenos Aires to teach in an impoverished town on the border with Brazil and Paraguay. Brutally attacked by a group of youths shortly after her arrival, she has to decide whether to continue with her mission. Paulina marks Mitre’s second film after The

Making good on its director’s large promise, “Paulina,” the second feature from Santiago Mitre, whose “The Student” was one of Latin America’s standout recent debuts, topped the Cannes Film Festival’s 54th Critics’ Week, taking its Nespresso Grand Prix on Thursday. Sold by Versatile and produced by Argentina’s La Union de los Rios, Paris-based Full House, Walter Salles’ VideoFilmes and Telefonica Studios, “Paulina” centers on a woman lawyer in a humble neighborhood who is bru

Sold by Versatile, and produced by Argentina’s La Union de los Rios, Paris-based Full House, Walter Salles’ VideoFilmes and Telefonica Studios, “Paulina” centers on a woman lawyer (Dolores Fonzi, “La Aura”) in a humble neighborhood who is brutally attacked, but refuses to give up on her social work. Source : Variety Paulina's page on the Critics' Week website : http://www.semainedelacritique.com/EN/films/2015/2015_comp_Paulina.php# Paulina's presentation by Charles Tesson, th