Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

BallWubba Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

ObscureFilmLover Paula is 24 years old and has talent as an actress. She is following her dream in a difficult country. In spite of the fact that she's been on her own for two and maybe six years, she seems oblivious to the reality around her. She has a job which she loses early on because she's chronically late and additionally is three months behind on her rent and faces eviction the next day.A wiser choice for Paula would have been to realize that she could not support herself and seek roommates to share expenses when she first started out on her career. So now she has to get 300 pesos in a day or become homeless so she eventually turns to a friend who is already a sex worker. They quickly are picked up by two boys their own ages who agree to pay them 50 pesos apiece. Her friend goes down on her client but Paula bolts and says she wants to be on her own. Her friend inexplicably gives her the 100 pesos.On the street she is picked up by a middle aged man. Paula has no problem blowing him (unlike the first boy) but has failed to make the bargain and get the money up front. So he ends up stiffing her.Then she hits pay dirt when Raoul, a nice looking middle aged recently separated man staying at an upscale hotel, picks her up. She is paid 200 pesos and Raoul is clearly wanting to become an established client. Paula blows him off, goes sees her boyfriend and they end up getting robbed in a night club.She comes back to Raoul and agrees to spend the night for the money she needs for rent. However, after they have sex which she seems to enjoy, she breaks her promise and tries to leave early. Raoul then catches her and takes the money back.Paula then goes to a club, picks up a sketchy older man and checks into a seedy hotel. He pays her 200 pesos and she blows him. When she tries to leave, he says they're not done and then beats her and rapes her. The movie then ends with Paula looking out over the city and presumably contemplating her future.The writer/director in his notes says that Paula is a woman who won't compromise her deeply held moral beliefs. What those are is not clear. Without even discussing the morality of being a sex worker, Paula uses people when it suits her, borrowing from her Uncle and never intending to pay it back, lying to Raoul about spending the night, taking extreme measures to avoid her landlord who she owes nearly a thousand pesos.Those actions may show someone who is street smart but they also show someone who has a fluid morality.I realize this review is more about the character's story than it is about the quality of the film making. However, it's obvious that that is the main point of the film.

dougjn I gave this film as high as a 4 mostly because it does bring a certain fascination in watching such a self entitled and deluded feminist snot get a real street life comeuppance. There is some verite in that.To call the lead actress, who turns street / club hooker "beautiful" as a couple of reviewers do must be a joke. Or else plugs by female or male friends of hers. She's a 5 at best on a 10 scale, particularly by Argentine standards (where she may be a 4). She also has a boyish body and an utterly apparent heavily feminist, resentful attitude towards men. The sole thing she has going for her is being in her 20s.She does the opposite of exude sexiness. Instead she exudes a sense of entitlement for being a 20 something girl and a self identifying actress, though not at all a successful one. Frankly I was amazed and non believing that she could be at all successful as anything but a bottom of the price ladder street hooker not to mention club hooker, with her non looks, non body and non sexiness, and radiating hostile resentment. I'd never pick her, no matter how thin the competition. This was in other words an entirely feminist entitled and angry look at prostitution, from the frame among many other clichéd things you can guess and be right, of believing absolutely any 20 something girl can demand and get top street dollar as a hooker. Well at least if she isn't obese.She richly deserves to be sacked at her waitressing job which she takes utterly for granted despite the fact her rent is way overdue and she has no money for food or anything else, and even though she's obviously just barely not already been sacked for repeated prior lateness etc., at the time when she actually is. She's utterly alienated and exasperated her comfortable but not rich professional father and it seems the rest of her family, which she's long stopped communicating with. She also has "too much pride" to really tell him the dire straights she's in. In fact she proclaims to him "I do have a job" when she's just been sacked from it earlier that day.What is there to like about this girl? I found absolutely nothing. I couldn't stand her in any way.I found myself practically cheering when after repeatedly trying to cheat men by giving them less than they'd paid for in every encounter, the last man of her night forcibly takes what he paid for. After giving her 200 pesos (which by then we know is high dollar for full on sex over a good long time period in a room), and she then tries to immediately bolt the room after giving him a preliminary blowjob that maybe took all of five minutes if that, he forcibly stops her from leaving and forcibly takes the full on sex with her he'd paid for, while angrily telling her street slags are plentiful, and she moans back, "I am not a puta" (whore). Not only is she one, but a plain Jane, highly unpleasant cheating puta who's totally not worth bottom peso. Hooray, she was forcibly made to provide what the customer she solicited paid high pesos for.All you rad feminists and manginas can get outraged all you want. To call what happens to her in the end rape as one user reviewer did is ridiculous. Sure you can rape prostitutes but he paid top dollar and she tried to run out with just a five minute blow job, which clearly wasn't what he paid for. He forced her to give him what he did pay for. That isn't rape. If she'd offered him back all but 50 pesos, maybe, but she hardly did that. The self styled entitled serial thief. Just like she tried to steal from the guy she rather liked but didn't want to, who paid her 300 pesos to spend the night. And then ran off after one shag and his dozing off – until he caught her and took back most (but not all, he probably took back 200 pesos it seemed) of what he'd paid her, saying, rightly "that's all you're worth").She richly deserved it and I hope she was taught a lesson. Beautiful young girl? Not by the furthest stretch, in any way whatsoever. She's horrid. But perhaps no longer feeling so invulnerable nor entitled. Which would be a good thing.

evajuel Is one of the best Argentinian films i have seen in my life, almost a master piece. You should all see it.Briefly, the story is:After her gas is cut off, Paula - an aspiring actress - finds her day going from bad to worse. Unable to borrow money from her friends, or from her estranged father, she is then propositioned by the director of her play and loses her job. Needing 300 pesos to pay off her landlord, she turns to an old school friend, now a prostitute, in the hope of getting some cash. The perils she faces through this awful day continue through the night. Will she be able to cope with her new professions? What will tomorrow bring?Setting it over the course of a single day and night, he manages to weave a series of perilous situations for his central character to overcome. But this is no simple tale of black-and-white morality, or an uplifting fable of hard work overcoming all.

Rodolfo Soriano Núñez The performance by Antonella Costa is just superb, however there are some problems with the plot and how the story develops. The movie catches with singular dramatic intensity the consequences of economic crisis in Argentina and its effects on many young female. Of course, the effects of such crises are not exclusive of Argentina. They repeat with terrifying regularity all over Latin America.It is a movie with brains made on a low-low budget, and that is why it is killed by the whole scene on the elevator. I will not elaborate on the details of such scene, but any person that has ever used an elevator in Argentina or in any other country of the world knows that elevators do not do that. There were many ways to achieve the dramatic purposes of such scene without doing what Chomski did. I will also add to my criticism the fact that having that beautiful city that is Buenos Aires as a background, the movie uses little or nothing of it. That is a shame because the city offers many opportunities to develop good cinematography without spending too much.Overall good on the performance of Antonella, great on the underlying criticism of the economic situation in Argentina, but a flaw that kind of kill the movie as an artistic exercise.