Puan
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| 8 EUR, red. 4 EUR |
| FSK 12 |
| Entrance: Portal 5. Note: A severe thunderstorm may lead to the cancellation of the event. |
| María Alché, Benjamín Naishtat / Argentina 2023 / 109 Min. / Dramedy / Spanish with English subtitles |
| English, Spanish |
| Ground Floor, Schlüter Courtyard |
| Belongs to: Box Office Around The World |
In this comedy, a cosmopolitan braggart and a shaggy underdog battle it out for the top job at the Puan Faculty of Philosophy in Buenos Aires. A roundelay of different ladies around them are not passive spectators. With biting humor, the film paints a portrait of Argentina’s intellectual elite on the edge of the abyss.
Puan is not only the name of the metro station where the Faculty of the University of Buenos Aires is, it’s also a ‘cult’. At least that’s how the widow of a philosophy professor who died while jogging refers to the it and that’s where two unlikely heroes compete to succeed him.
Marcelo, the underdog, and Rafael, the cosmopolitan poser, engage in a deeply sad yet hilarious duel for the chief chair in the midst of a society that has gone off the rails. They are flanked by impoverished academics and their entourage, society ladies, feminist activists and a film star. Who will win?
The biting humour of this social comedy which has been extremely successful in Argentina, has local colour of a special and rare quality that also works beyond its place of origin. The directing couple María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat last made waves with their film Rojo.
Programme
7:30 pm
Talk with Alan Pauls, Dorothee Wenner and Julieta Zarankin (moderator)
in English and Spanish
8:30 pm
Film
Participants
Alan Pauls (Buenos Aires, 1959) is a writer, translator and journalist. He has been a professor of Literary Theory at the University of Buenos Aires and a visiting professor at Princeton University. He has conducted seminars in the Creative Writing master’s programs at Untref and New York University. He is the author of, among other books, the novels Wasabi, The Past (Herralde Prize 2003) and the trilogy History of Tears, History of Hair and History of Money, as well as the essay books The Borges Factor, Barefoot Life, Slow Themes and Trance. His latest novel is The Ghost Half, from 2021. In 2022, he published Fail Again, a praise of error. Since 2019, he has lived in Berlin. He currently collaborates with the Berlin Review.
Partner
With the kind support of Invasion
