The Aura

"Mesmerizing and haunting!" - Film Comment
"A gripping crime story!" - New York Times
"Perfectly executed...a puzzle that grabs the viewer!" - LA Weekly

In his elegantly conceived second feature, The Aura, Fabián Bielinsky (Nine Queens) creates a complex genre film firmly rooted in character. Espinoza is an introverted taxidermist who daydreams about committing the perfect robbery. But when he accepts a friend's invitation to go hunting in Patagonia, he is presented with the chance to pull off a real heist and he naïvely places himself in the center of a scheme to rob an armored van. Unlike those in his imagination, however, this is a real crime with real criminals. As a heist film, The Aura sports a shrewd, serpentine plot, and Bielinsky allows us the fun of trying to arrange puzzle pieces on our own. But he also never lets go of his preoccupation with character and crafts a style that's airy and contemplative; The Aura's gorgeous, deliberate visuals are almost hypnotic." - Sundance Film Festival (2005, 134m, in Spanish with subtitles)

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