Camila (Nina Dziembrowski) is a teenager who lives with her mother and younger sister in Mar del Plata, but will have to move them to Buenos Aires when her grandmother becomes seriously ill. And from the beginning it is clear to us that Camila is a rebellious girl, a young feminist in the making who will now start a conservative school attended mostly by kids from rich families. The director immediately lets her know that the promotion of political ideologies is not allowed there and warns her that she must put away the scarf she is wearing on her bag, which symbolizes support for the movement that advocates the freedom of women’s reproductive rights. It is clear that this is the most ordinary nonsense, because it is obvious that this is one of those somewhat rigid schools where good, old Christian and national values are promoted.
At first, Camila is not too happy with the new environment, and she does not have a special opinion of the rich grandmother, whom she calls an old fascist. When she meets a new society, she will realize that the students are not as conservative as the school canons dictate and she will start going out, experimenting, to the horror of her mother, who warns her that she is a bad role model for her younger sister. Camila will first get into a relationship with her colleague Bruno, then with her colleague Clara, and right from the start she will become the target of the school bully, who is also Clara’s ex-boyfriend. “Camila saldra esta noche” was another in a series of modern films with a strong feminist flair and a clear political commitment that was shot in a typical Latin American naturalistic style.
This drama premiered at the festival in San Sebastian, and director Ines Maria Barrionuevo, just like in several previous films, continued to deal with the issue of young people and their position in Argentine society. It was a solid and subversive coming-of-age drama that provokes some traditional, conservative customs and principles, and the mother-daughter relationship is interesting. And while Camila refuses to submit to the hypocritical rules that rule the school, her mother warns her that it would be wiser not to make waves and not stand out so as not to get into trouble, since she is well aware of the environment, although at the same time she is proud to have raised a daughter who thinks with her own head and who questions the authorities.