Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Ginger 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.

jomarios-1 It's quite difficult to judge or value this Mexican film without being moved by the human emotions it intends - and succeeds - to convey.The story is quite simple but anybody can sympathetically understand the sudden ambition of the film's main personage. He seems to be a happy retired man living in a home where is loved and well considered by his wife, his daughter and his lovely little grandchild. But he wants more and dares to challenge the unusual initiative to start a new career in a local university where he will be in contact with young students in their twenties.The intergenerational confrontation between him and the bunch of young students is well depicted with scenes of a common daily life, inside and outside the classroom where they attend the school hours.The acting, the photography and the varied musical score are quite appropiated. The film is a surprising success for this opera prima of its director. The final scenes of the movie are quite sentimental but genuine in a very positive way.This is a movie to be seen by all who seek in a movie a beautiful human story and a nice exposition of human values in terms of respect, appreciation, friendship and true loving sympathy.Don Quijote, the fictional personage of the famous Cervantes's novel would be delighted to see this film, and obviously his faithful companion Sancho Panza.This is a most to see movie, for all those - students and teachers - who are in search of human values in people who are living close to us. Roberto Girault has realized a nice film worth of a second vision.

manueldr I watched this movie because the buzz was too much already and I thought something good had to have. Big mistake."El estudiante" has a good idea of a story but the script is so bad it makes good actors (like Jorge Lavat or Norma Lazareno) sound and look false and overacted. With cheesy and prefabricated dialogues it's nothing more than a very sad try to do a Hollywood film but in Guanajuato, MX. Some scenes are such clichés that you could literally translate them to English and name the movies they are in.The director obviously has no experience directing actors or he is very bad at it. You can see how very talented actors struggle with scenes and end up giving a very poor performance. There are acting shortcomings one can't believe a director could let them make it to the final cut.The only thing they did good was to merchandise the movie and build buzz around it. How they did that? Publicizing the fact that the writer and director were unexperienced (amazingly in México that's a box office booster) and then using easy and shameless emotional manipulation in the movie to make everyone talk about it.Very good work by the DP but, then again, wrapped by the rest, it's sad.

icorella Regardless of its country of origin, a movie that promotes values, life, and respect the way "El Estudiante" does, is truly hard to find these days. The film is truly remarkable and a hard departure from today's mostly trash-filled films. A film you can see with all the family without worries. An uncompromised masterpiece.I am to see a better-made, better-acted, heartfelt piece of art. My best wishes to Gaston Pavlovich, its creator, and may this movie be seen and rewarded for all years to come.Specially remarkable is the work of Mr. Lavat, whose artistic origins and past work are well known to most Mexicans. The new crop of your actors, their fresh if ordinary looks are worth of representing a new cinema wave for people tired of cheap acting roles of would be's like Gael Garcia's or the like who act based on foulness and cheapness. Good Job!

Adolfo Kahan First of all, this movie is amazing! From the trailer, I didn't really know what to expect. I was sort of expecting one of you typical 5/10 star Mexican medium budget film. Boy, was I surprised.The acting was top notch, the jokes were perfectly executed and I could really identify with various characters. The DP work was amazing and I fell in love even more with the beautiful city of Guanajuato.The only problem I had (which also prevented me from giving this movie a 10) was that this movie tried to deal with too many stories for its 90 min length. I sometimes felt like the subplots were a little bit rushed and that some scenes were missing back story or were even a little bit pointless.Aside from that, (I won't give away spoilers) but I was crying and going through the same emotions as the characters towards the end (and I sincerely almost never experience that nowadays).Final Verdict: You have gotta see this movie!