{"id":133493,"date":"2024-07-09T13:24:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T11:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/programm\/termin\/other-en\/puan-133493\/"},"modified":"2024-08-19T09:38:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T07:38:22","slug":"puan","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/termin\/film-video-en\/puan-133493\/","title":{"rendered":"Puan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Puan is not only the name of the metro station where the Faculty of the University\u00a0of Buenos Aires is,\u00a0it’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\u2019s where two unlikely heroes compete to succeed him.<\/p>\n

Marcelo, the underdog, and Rafael, the cosmopolitan poser, engage in a deeply sad yet hilarious duel for the\u00a0chief<\/span>\u00a0chair 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?<\/p>\n

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 Mar\u00eda Alch\u00e9 and Benjam\u00edn Naishtat last made waves with their film Rojo<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Programme<\/h5>\n

7:30 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

Talk with Alan Pauls, Dorothee Wenner and Julieta Zarankin (moderator)<\/p>\n

in English and Spanish<\/em><\/p>\n

8:30 pm<\/strong>
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