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Aura, The
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Generally favorable reviews
Based on 19 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Crime | Drama | Foreign | Suspense/Thriller
Written by: Fabián Bielinsky
Directed by: Fabián Bielinsky
Release Date:
Theatrical: November 17, 2006
DVD: April 10, 2007
Running Time: 134 minutes, Color
Origin: Argentina / France / Spain
Language(s): Spanish (with English subtitles)
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Ricardo Darín, Dolores Fonzi, Pablo Cedrón, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Jorge D'Elía, Alejandro Awada, Rafael Castejón, and Manuel Rodal
On his first ever hunting trip, in the calm of the Patagonian forest, a shy, epileptic taxidermist who secretly dreams of executing the perfect robbery stumbles upon an opportunity to make his dreams come true. (IFC First Take Films)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Ricardo Darín, wearing a mild-mannered expression of emotional remove, plays the unnamed antihero, obsessed with imagining the perfect robbery. The ''aura'' is the clarity with which he sees -- or imagines he sees -- the world in moments preceding an epileptic attack.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marrit Ingman
The film is a sure winner for arthouse audiences enamored of the new Argentine cinema, but it has crossover appeal for venturesome viewers in search of a good mystery, as well.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
Darin is an actor who's really consummate at suggesting two simultaneous levels of character.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Scott Foundas
Whereas "Nine Queens" was a movie of clockwork precision and blindsiding reversals, El Aura is more internalized and digressive but no less striking, in large part thanks to Darin's mesmerizing performance.
Read Full Review >Variety Jonathan Holland
The Aura is far from being simply "Nine Queens2." Leisurely paced, studied, reticent and rural, The Aura is a quieter, richer and better-looking piece that handles its multiple manipulations with the maturity the earlier picture sometimes lacked.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
This is a tremendously atmospheric movie full of moody mystery, and it'll keep you on the edge of your seat from beginning to end.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
Mr. Bielinsky, in what would sadly be his last film, demonstrates a mastery of the form that is downright scary.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray
The Aura holds together as a dreamy variation on "Reservoir Dogs'" heist-gone-wrong fatalism and the know-thyself confrontations of David Mamet's "Homicide."
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Bielinsky's "Nine Queens" was a complex romp through the machinations of high-stakes con artists, but this intricately plotted mystery ventures into darker psychological territory and never misses a step.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
The tension and intrigue between the pretender and his would-be associates is as dense as the woods surrounding their hiding place.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
The Aura is richer and less showy than "Nine Queens," and it lifts off from the gangster genre to contemplate deeper mysteries.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
It's less a deconstruction of the heist film than an ambitious contemplation of our fascination with the genre, directed with a dispassionate eye at a ruminative pace and centered by a queasily emotionless figure wading through a swamp of moral ambiguity.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jennie Punter
Its rhythm is deliberate and unhurried, yet the film is rich with detail and with small, meaningful character revelations -- the running time of more than two hours feels just right.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Reece Pendleton
While never boring and sometimes quite gripping, Bielinsky’s manneristic style becomes distracting; he seems more concerned with generating an ominous atmosphere than with telling a compelling story.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Don R. Lewis
While an enjoyable twist on the noir genre, a little more character development would have been nice.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
Bielinsky is a most expressive director, achieving considerable nuances and depths of emotion with characters' looks, gestures, body language and silences.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle David Wiegand
The careful camera work, beautifully dank cinematography and the quietly nuanced performance by Darín keep our attention, but in the end, the film's bigger challenge isn't its length, or its deliberate pace: It's that it's overly freighted with symbolism and meaning.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 9.7 (out of 10) based on 10 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Buttered Popcorn gave it a9:
What a good movie. I only wish it were a bit less violent, though by today's standards, this movie is actually not all too violent.
Danieo V. gave it a10:
A magnificent work of cinematic art. The thematic and narrative symmetry were immensely pleasing. The type of movie you'd watch again for the little details and tiny nuances in acting.
Paul K.e gave it a9:
Caught a filmfest screening of this gem last month. If you enjoyed Nine Queens, the same quality filmmaking continue here. Sadly, this is his last film.
Tim D gave it a10:
Dark, unsettling, at times hypnotic, the film exerts a grip that didn't let go of me until it was over, and even then images and sounds from it stayed with me for many hours. A first-class piece of work with a world-class actor -- Ricardo Darín -- in the lead role.
