The Aura
by Fabián Bielinsky
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Actor: Dolores Fonzi, Manuel Rodal, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Pablo Cedrón, Ricardo DarínDirector: Fabián Bielinsky
Brand: Generic
Writer: Fabián Bielinsky
Producer: Ariel Saúl
Producer: Augusto Greco
Producer: Cecilia Bossi
Producer: Diego Conejero
Producer: Gerardo Herrero
Producer: José Garcia Espina
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 134 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-04-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 79870
Studio: Ifc
DVD Reviews of The Aura
DVD Review: If A Crime Happens in the Forest...
Summary: 4 Stars
For an epileptic, robbing banks, casinos, and armored cars poses some unique challenges.
Esteban is a mild mannered taxidermist, prone to grand mal seizures. Right before a seizure he experiences auras, which he eloquently describes as a moment in time when he knows something [a seizure] is going to happen, and has absolutely no control over it.
Esteban spends his days fantasizing about committing the perfect heist, while quietly selecting glass eyes for his customer's recent trophy kills. He has the perfect job for daydreaming about an elegant crime where everything goes as planned, and no one gets hurt. Clearly it's been a while since Esteban rented `Reservoir Dogs'.
Set in the woods outside Buenos Aires, `The Aura' is a well-timed, crime thriller. It has all the elements of an urban genre: a down-on-his-luck protagonist, a mysterious woman, and some really, really, bad guys.
Although he is not a hunter, Esteban begrudgingly agrees to take a hunting trip with his buddy. An overbooked hotel manager recommends a nearby rustic hunting lodge run by a husband and wife. Deep in the woods, and angered by his friend's chiding, he decides to shoot a deer. This single action brings reality to Esteban's dream, as he fits himself into the planning and execution of an armored car robbery.
Much like a seizure, once his plan is set in motion, it roars out of control, with violent and unique consequences. Starring Ricardo Darin as Esteban. Darin also played the arrogant con man in `Nine Queens', which was later remade in the US as `The Criminal' starring John C. Riley.
`The Aura' is in Spanish with English subtitles.
Description of The Aura
There is something criminalabout his dreamsProductInformationIn The Auro Espinoza is a taxidermist marked with strange qualities -a photographic memory and random fits of epilepsy. To escapehis lonely everyday life he spends hi time lost in fantasy about theperfect heist. When a fatal hunting accident presents agolden opportunity he takes the chance to put his plot into action.But living in a world of real violence might bring a lethal dose ofreality to Espinoza - and the beautiful young woman he's brought intohis plan. Now he must decide if criminal perfection is worththe ultimate price.Product Features The Making of "The Aura" Behind-the-Scenes: A Musical Montage Theatrical TrailerSpecificationsSpecifications: Stars: Ricardo Dar?n ManuelRodal Dolores Fonzi Format: Color DVD-VideoWidescreen Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Spanish Number of Discs: 1 Rating: Not Rated Run Time: 138 minutes Directed By: Fabian BielinskyThe Aura will go down in history as a great film with a tragic loss attached to it. This totally original and deeply involving thriller was the second and final feature film by Fabián Bielinsky, a gifted Argentinian writer-director whose debut feature, Nine Queens, earned global acclaim and introduced Bielinsky as a talent to watch. Sadly, Bielinsky died of a sudden heart attack in June 2006, at age 47, and we'll never know what other great films he might have made. The Aura stands as testament to Bielinsky's masterful skill, on full display in this riveting study of a sad and lonely taxidermist named Espinosa (played by Ricardo Darín, who was also in Nine Queens) who compensates for his disappointing life by imagining elaborate crimes that he's planned to perfection. When a hunting accident results in the death of a criminal mastermind who'd been planning a casino heist, the taxidermist (who possesses a photographic memory and suffers from occasional blackouts caused by epileptic seizures) assumes the dead man's role, improvising his way through the crime-plot with untrustworthy partners and the constant threat of danger.
The film's title refers to the semi-conscious fugue state that precedes the taxidermist's epileptic seizures, inducing a sense of disorientation and dread that Bielinsky uses to deepen the film's psychological impact. Darín's dour, worried expression is a fascinating focal point for his character's unpredictable journey into the heart of darkness, and The Aura's primary setting, in the thick forest of Patagonia, is a perfect complement to the film's ominous atmosphere and deliberately paced intrigue. As far-fetched as it may seem at times, the plot's heightened reality remains utterly convincing, and Bielinsky demonstrates an uncanny knack for escalating suspense in quietly intense situations. From start to finish, The Aura is clearly the work of a filmmaker with seemingly limitless potential, and we can only wonder about the excellent films Bielinsky would have made had he lived. Unfortunately, two slight DVD extras on The Aura give us no insight into Bielinsky's too-short career: the "making of" featurette is very brief and consists primarily of an interview with Ricardo Darín, and the behind-the-scenes musical montage is an equally short and perfunctory assembly of production video set to the moody, electronic tones of Lucio Godoy's subtly effective score. --Jeff Shannon
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