El estudiante (The Student)

Roque leaves the province to study in Buenos Aires. First, he “majors” in partying and women, stumbling sluggishly through everyday university life. When he falls in love with the politically active lecturer Paula, his passion for power games awakens. When a new dean is about to be elected, Roque plunges into a heated campaign full of surprises...

Mitre’s feature film debut is an elegantly refined political farce full of about-faces and intrigue. The university, as a setting for an ideological coming-of-age, reveals flashes of Argentina’s old, dirty political machinery.