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In a bittersweet comedy that is successful, although sometimes lacking in depth, Maria Alché and Benjamin Naishtat humorously paint a picture of the ravages of neoliberalism in the Argentine university microcosm.
A well-known adage in the Anglo-Saxon academic world, once stated by the political scientist Wallace Stanley Sayre, would have it that “Wars are tough there because the stakes are so low.” The teacher, bittersweet comedy that had its minor success in the fall in Argentina, says pretty much the opposite: it depicts a battle with flying foils shaking the chair of philosophy at the public university of Buenos Aires, but makes the outcome an existential issue. Co-directed by actress and filmmaker María Alché and her partner in the city, filmmaker Benjamín Naishtat (Rojo), The teacher was written and filmed before the election of the ultra-liberal and far-right president Javier Milei. But it depicts an already tense political and academic context, with budget cuts and scholarship suspensions.
Gallery of expertly brushed teachers
We understand from then on that with the sudden death of the director of the philosophy chair during a jog, it is an era that is ending. The cards within
