2023-10-04 14:22:13
For those who studied Literature or Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), that place had a street name: Puan. But Puan sums up a whole world in his few letters. And that is what the directors and screenwriters María Alché and Benjamín Naishta portray in a comedic tone in the film that arrives this week in theaters in the region..
The film, with Marcelo Subiotto, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Julieta Zylberberg, Alejandra Flechner, Mara Bestelli, Cristina Banegas, Andrea Frigerio and a very brief appearance by Lali Espósito in front of the cameras, takes with humor a kind of intern unleashed between two very different teachers.
On the one hand, Subiotto (with a great performance that earned him an award for best actor at the last San Sebastian Film Festival, Spain), who plays Marcelo Pena, a professor who has dedicated his life to teaching Philosophy in the University of Buenos Aires. When his mentor dies unexpectedly, he assumes that he will inherit the position of Chair holder.
On the other, Rafael Sujarchuk (Leonardo Sbaraglia), his nemesis: seductive, charismatic and with European degrees, who arrives from Frankfurt with all that resume to the faculty. Rafael is a professor who dazzles with his quotes from Kant in German, his histrionics and a courtship with the stunning Vera Mota (a brief cameo by Lali Espósito.
The Faculty then organizes a contest (the dean is played by Cristina Banegas). Marcelo’s clumsy efforts to prove that he is the best candidate will trigger a fun duel, while his life and his world (also the personal one where there is a daughter he sees little of and a woman) enter a spiral. of chaos.
There is, in the character of Marcelo, some pathos, insecurity and a certain submission to the humiliations of the environment, but also nobility and integrity. It will then be within the framework of that internal struggle where it will be seen which of these two opposing forces will emerge victorious.
Alché (also director of “Familia submerged”) defines Marcelo as “a very Buenos Aires professor from the UBA, with all his difficulties, contradictions and his running from one place to the other.” “As always in comedy, a character has to appear who provides the counterpoint, who is the opposite, then Rafael appeared, this professor under Leonardo Sbaraglia, with more ‘charme’, with his international universities and all that.”
Benjamín Naishtat (director of “Rojo”, “Story of Fear”, “The Movement”), highlights that in the current context, the film acquires a surprising relevance: “Evidently there was a feeling in the air that places like Puan have a miraculous component, in that teachers teach classes at a very high level, with situations that tend to be increasingly difficult in terms of public education,” he reflects on a topic that is becoming topical these days.
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