El Aura

El Aura

A deluded taxidermist plans the perfect crime.This one sentence plot in IMDB provoked me to watch this 2005 film by Argentine director Fabián Bielinsky. Despite all the high expectations, this movie managed to make a good impression on me. It's the first one i watched among the works of this director and planning to watch Nine Queens (2000) and Criminal (2004). The lead actor,  Ricardo Darín was unknown to me before I watched The Secret In Their Eyes. An epileptic taxidermist turns into the mastermind of a perfect robbery, the story itself is enough to make this movie severely interesting, a purely dreamy soundtrack and splendid frames of mountainous landscape are addition to it's patient audience. Portraits of different characters and the calm way of storytelling goes on simultaneously to prolong the waiting time of the audience to the happening part. To me the most interesting part was breaking the barrier to be capable of killing any living thing, very well acted by the renowned actor. Another significant thing to mention is the short journey to church and the conversation between the lead and Diana, their return part was also is a strong exhibit of director's unique storytelling style. Compared to the first half, most happening events happened very fast in the second one. Last one thing I want to mention is director's emphasis on the details, just what needed to mix the epileptic melancholy to a thriller. I liked the name of the movie from the start and seeing it, everyone who will watch this movie will remember the name.