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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