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  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 3 h 1 m
  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 3 h 1 m

Summary Aurora is a murder mystery turned on its head - where the mystery's not the culprit, but the motive. Inside a non-descript apartment kitchen, a man and a woman discuss the inconsistencies in Little Red Riding Hood, their voices hushed, mindful of waking the little girl sleeping in the next room. Behind a line of abandoned trailers, on ...

Directed By: Cristi Puiu

Written By: Cristi Puiu

  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 3 h 1 m
  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 3 h 1 m

Aurora

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary Aurora is a murder mystery turned on its head - where the mystery's not the culprit, but the motive. Inside a non-descript apartment kitchen, a man and a woman discuss the inconsistencies in Little Red Riding Hood, their voices hushed, mindful of waking the little girl sleeping in the next room. Behind a line of abandoned trailers, on ...

Directed By: Cristi Puiu

Written By: Cristi Puiu

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
63
75% Positive
6 Reviews
13% Mixed
1 Review
13% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
63
75% Positive
6 Reviews
13% Mixed
1 Review
13% Negative
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83
Jun 29, 2011
Over a difficult three-hour sprawl, Cristi Puiu's Aurora fully explores the time before and after a killer strikes, and it has the cumulative effect of making what passes for a "motive" seem absurdly simplistic.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
80
Jun 28, 2011
A quiet, steady burn filled with stretches of unsettlingly reverberant silence cleaved in half by a midpoint eruption of violence. Here there is before, and then there is after.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
75
Sep 15, 2011
The film takes its time detailing his mundane activities, often withholding the kind of information audiences usually expect, and it's Puiu's talent to transform it all into a highly disturbing portrait - both of an individual and a society.
By Walter Addiego FULL REVIEW
70
Jun 28, 2011
Call it a mental workout that (although considerably less arduous than reading Sartre) some might find exhausting and others exhilarating. Aurora is not a movie to make you glad that you exist; it's a movie that makes you aware that you do.
By J. Hoberman FULL REVIEW
63
Jun 28, 2011
What Puiu seems to be suggesting is that the complexities of human behavior and relationships are beyond the power of the law to comprehend, but are they also beyond the power of the cinema?
By Andrew Schenker FULL REVIEW
40
Jul 1, 2011
Maddeningly mundane, this Romanian drama aims for an antiseptic look at random violence and, unfortunately, achieves it.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW
20
Jun 28, 2011
Puiu offers zero insight into his character; only suckers will find the pose artful or nourishing. Skip it.
By Joshua Rothkopf FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Mandragora, Coproduction Office, Bord Cadre Films, Essential Filmproduktion GmbH, Romanian National Center for Cinematography, Arte France Cinéma, HBO Romania, Parisienne de Production, Societatea Româna de Televiziune, Société Parisienne de Production, TSR/SSR, ZDF/Arte
Release Date Jun 29, 2011
Duration 3 h 1 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Gopo Awards, Romania
• 3 Wins & 9 Nominations
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Gijón International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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