Film info: El estudiante
entradasFilm Information
| Original Title | El estudiante |
|---|---|
| English Title | The Student |
| Director | Santiago Mitre |
| Country |  |
| Year | 2011 |
| Format | HD |
| Colour | Color |
| Duration | 124 min |
Cast:
- Esteban Lamothe, Romina Paula, Ricardo Félix, Valeria Correa
Production:
- Guión: Santiago Mitre
- Fotografía: Gustavo Biazzi, Soledad Rodríguez, Federico Cantini, Alejo Maglio
- Montaje: Delfina Castagnino
- Producción: Agustina Llambi Campbell, Santiago Mitre, Fernando Brom
Synopsis
At first sight, this could be a tale of initiation: Roque, a young man from the interior, comes to Buenos Aires to attend college; and right when he seemed only interested in meeting girls, he starts to get involved with politics and gets ahead in his career as a student representative. But, while focusing in the sole viewpoint of its lead character Roque, the film starts to unfold a vibrant story that opens up to different directions: utilitarian relationships, the pendular oscillation between ethics and betrayal, politics as a generational issue, the youthful urge for getting quickly ahead, the perspective of a future that could either reproduce a rancid and corrupt past or imagine a different future. Santiago Mitre has not only made a film that looks into the world of college –a place rarely visited by Argentine cinema, except for maybe Dar la cara–, he has also presented university as a mirror capable of reflecting social tensions by drawing a plot with a lucid and tireless drive for narrating Argentina. If the so-called New Argentine Cinema was ever defined as non-political, El estudiante is the most brutal and brilliant rebuttal to that fallacy: it’s not only new, but also indispensable.
Date and Times
0800-333-7848 / M to F / 10:00am to 08:00pm