Puan (film)

The plot tracks a political philosophy lecturer of the university on the Puan street of Buenos Aires whose prospects for taking the vacant chair of deceased professor Caselli are threatened by the return of a former colleague back from Germany.^[1][2]

The film is an Argentine-Italian-French-German-Brazilian co-production by A Pasto and Pucará Cine along with Infinity Hill, Pandora Filmproduktion, Atelier de Production, Kino Produzioni, and Bubbles Project.^[2]

The film entered the main competition of the 71st San Sebastián International Film Festival, making its debut on 26 September 2023.^[6] Distributed by Digicine,^[4] it opened in Argentine theatres on 5 October 2023.^[7]

According to the American review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, Puan has a 90% approval rating based on 10 reviews from critics, with an average rating of 7.7/10.^[8]

Jessica Kiang of Variety deemed the film to be "a fleet-footed if sharply pointed existential-crisis comedy, shot with unobtrusive, naturalistic dynamism by Hélène Louvart".^[2]

Marcelo Stiletano of La Nación gave the film a 'very good' rating assessing that on the surface, the film works like a charm as a college-set madcap comedy, but it also is a tragicomedy.^[4]

Bartolomé Armentano of Rolling Stone considered that, in addition of the showcase of the cast, the film features another great achievement, that of "the accurate representation of university life and academic endogamy".^[5]