El Aura
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| Directed by | Fabián Bielinsky |
| Produced by | Ariel Saúl Victor Hadida Cecilia Bossi |
| Written by | Fabián Bielinsky |
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| Music by | Dario Eskenazi |
| Cinematography | Checco Varese |
| Edited by | Alejandro Carrillo Penovi Fernando Pardo |
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Buena Vista International IFC Films |
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138 minutes |
| Country | Argentina France Spain |
| Language | Spanish |
| Box office | $1,785,981 |
The Aura (Spanish: El Aura) is a 2005 Argentine neo-noirpsychological thriller film directed and written by Fabián Bielinsky and starring Ricardo Darín. The plot revolves around Esteban Espinosa (Darín), an epileptic taxidermist who often fantasizes about committing the perfect crime. While hunting in Patagonia, Espinosa accidentally kills Dietrich (Rodal), a guide from the area, and discovers he is in fact a criminal. This unexpectedly connects him with the chance of executing a real crime: assaulting an armored truck carrying the profits of a casino in the area. Espinosa projects into his fantasies, assembling a puzzle piece by piece, inevitably enclosing himself in it.
The Aura received mostly positive reviews from critics upon its release, particularly for its screenplay and ambience. It won the Silver Condor for Best Film and was the Argentine entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 78th Academy Awards.
In neo-noir fashion El Aura narrates in the first person the hallucinating voyage of Espinoza, a quiet, cynical taxidermist, who suffers epilepsy attacks, and is obsessed with committing the perfect crime.
He claims that the cops are too stupid to find out about it when it's well executed, and that the robbers are too stupid to execute it the right way; and that he could do it himself relying on his photographic memory and his strategic planning skills.
On his first ever hunting trip, in the calm of the Patagonian forest, with one squeeze of the trigger his dreams are made real. Espinoza has accidentally killed a man who turns out to be a real criminal and he inherits his scheme: the heist of an armored truck carrying casino profits.
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