The Aura

2005

Synopsis

“THE AURA” tells in the first person the extraordinary trip of a character with no name, a taxidermist, an introverted, obscure man who has a strange obsession for an honest man: again and again over recent years, he has planned and imagined the most perfectly executed robberies. They’re always successful - thanks to his intelligence which, he claims, marks him apart from the idiots-fighting-idiots struggle of cops and robbers. He could carry it off better than anybody else.

 
Taken away from his urban habitat and transported to the remote forests of the south to take part in a day’s hunting, a tragic accident unexpectedly gives him the chance to commit a real crime: an attack on an armored security truck carrying the takings from a nearby casino. Motivated at first by morbid curiosity, and then carried along by the momentum of events, this taxidermist will be hurled right into his fantasies, and compelled to assemble, piece by piece, a complex jigsaw puzzle of events which will slowly trap him inescapably.

 
As it does so, he will have to battle against his greatest weakness: he is epileptic. And just before he succumbs to an attack, he will experience the “aura”: both a warning and a moment of strange, almost sublime enlightenment, an experience of utter confusion and overwhelming disorientation. These attacks will come when he least expects it, when most needs to use all his senses…

So he will discover that nothing is as it seemed. That crime requires intelligence and planning, but also involves blood and guts... And violence, and fear, and betrayal. He will find himself thrown into a world where he doesn’t understand the rules, where he can’t understand the language, and where he is trapped in a whirlwind of terror and unreality. Like an ‘aura’.

Technical Sheet

2005, 134 min, 35 mm, Color, Dolby Digital

Argentina, Spain, France

 

Screenplay & Direction - Fabian Bielinsky

 

Cast - Ricardo Darin, Dolores Fonzi, Alejandro Awada, Pablo Cedrón, Jorge D’Elia, Manuel Rodal, Rafael Castejón, Walter Reyno, Nahuel Perez Biscayart 

 

Produced by Patagonik Film Group, Tornasol Films, Davis Films Productions

In association with Aura Films, Naya Films 

 

Producers – Pablo Bossi, Samuel Hadida, Gerardo Herrero, Mariela Besuievsky

Executive Production – Cecilia Bossi, Victor Hadida, Ariel Saul

Executive Production on set - Diego Conejero, Jose Garcia Espina

Assistant Director - Federico Beron
 

Cinematography - Checo Varese (A.M.C.)

Production Design - Mercedes Alfonsin

Costume Design -Marisa Urruti

Editing - Alejandro Carrillo Penovi, Fernando Pardo

Sound Design - Jose Luis Diaz Ouzande

Sound - Abbate & Diaz

Original Soundtrack - Lucio Godoy

Casting – Eugenia Levin

 

Distributed by Buena Vista Internacional 

The Aura

2005

Synopsis

“THE AURA” tells in the first person the extraordinary trip of a character with no name, a taxidermist, an introverted, obscure man who has a strange obsession for an honest man: again and again over recent years, he has planned and imagined the most perfectly executed robberies. They’re always successful - thanks to his intelligence which, he claims, marks him apart from the idiots-fighting-idiots struggle of cops and robbers. He could carry it off better than anybody else.

 
Taken away from his urban habitat and transported to the remote forests of the south to take part in a day’s hunting, a tragic accident unexpectedly gives him the chance to commit a real crime: an attack on an armored security truck carrying the takings from a nearby casino. Motivated at first by morbid curiosity, and then carried along by the momentum of events, this taxidermist will be hurled right into his fantasies, and compelled to assemble, piece by piece, a complex jigsaw puzzle of events which will slowly trap him inescapably.

 
As it does so, he will have to battle against his greatest weakness: he is epileptic. And just before he succumbs to an attack, he will experience the “aura”: both a warning and a moment of strange, almost sublime enlightenment, an experience of utter confusion and overwhelming disorientation. These attacks will come when he least expects it, when most needs to use all his senses…

So he will discover that nothing is as it seemed. That crime requires intelligence and planning, but also involves blood and guts... And violence, and fear, and betrayal. He will find himself thrown into a world where he doesn’t understand the rules, where he can’t understand the language, and where he is trapped in a whirlwind of terror and unreality. Like an ‘aura’.

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