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This does not have the humanity and accessibility of The Death of Mr Lazarescu, but it certainly has a dark, lowering presence on the screen. Nov 8, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
This does not have the humanity and accessibility of The Death of Mr Lazarescu, but it certainly has a dark, lowering presence on the screen.
Peter Bradshaw
Puiu's special approach to the realist aesthetic ensures that 'Aurora' rings unusually true. Superb stuff. Nov 6, 2012 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Puiu's special approach to the realist aesthetic ensures that 'Aurora' rings unusually true. Superb stuff.
Geoff Andrew
It's Puiu's talent to transform it all into a highly disturbing portrait - both of an individual and a society. Sep 15, 2011 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
It's Puiu's talent to transform it all into a highly disturbing portrait - both of an individual and a society.
Walter V. Addiego
While Aurora is a formal triumph, it's less resonant than either 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days or The Death of Mr. Lazarescu. Jul 5, 2011 | Full Review…
While Aurora is a formal triumph, it's less resonant than either 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days or The Death of Mr. Lazarescu.
Mark Jenkins
Puiu, who also directed, goes too far in making the movie's violent undertone feel like just one more bit of modern malaise. Jul 1, 2011 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Puiu, who also directed, goes too far in making the movie's violent undertone feel like just one more bit of modern malaise.
Joe Neumaier
Aurora fully explores the time before and after a killer strikes, and it has the cumulative effect of making what passes for a "motive" seem absurdly simplistic. Jun 29, 2011 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
Aurora fully explores the time before and after a killer strikes, and it has the cumulative effect of making what passes for a "motive" seem absurdly simplistic.
Scott Tobias
Though never quite reaching the same existentialist zenith of some of his highly regarded contemporaries, Puiu has nevertheless constructed a drama of significant heft and impact. Feb 4, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Though never quite reaching the same existentialist zenith of some of his highly regarded contemporaries, Puiu has nevertheless constructed a drama of significant heft and impact.
Daniel Green
It seems that without the sociopolitical baggage, the Romanian new wave can be vacuous and vapid indeed. Oct 7, 2015 | Full Review…
It seems that without the sociopolitical baggage, the Romanian new wave can be vacuous and vapid indeed.
Martin Tsai
Everything that takes place feels so deliberately orchestrated that the seeming meaninglessness of certain actions become charged with, er, "meaning." Jun 17, 2013 | Full Review…
Everything that takes place feels so deliberately orchestrated that the seeming meaninglessness of certain actions become charged with, er, "meaning."
Chris Chang
It's a masterly film that draws us into a world controlled by unseen forces, but it concludes, intentionally, by compelling (not inviting) us to explain why Viorel acts this way. Nov 18, 2012 | Full Review…
It's a masterly film that draws us into a world controlled by unseen forces, but it concludes, intentionally, by compelling (not inviting) us to explain why Viorel acts this way.
Philip French
It does reward close attention - and its final act comes very close to being worth one of cinema's more epic waits. Nov 13, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It does reward close attention - and its final act comes very close to being worth one of cinema's more epic waits.
Hannah McGill
A murder movie languishing in a suicidal stupor. Save some strength to crawl out of the cinema. Nov 8, 2012 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
A murder movie languishing in a suicidal stupor. Save some strength to crawl out of the cinema.
Antonia Quirke
A 3 hour Romanian film may be a tough sell for most of the American moviegoing public, but Cristi Puiu's engrossing follow-up to THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU is a taut and darkly funny look at the into the mindset of a killer. Bravely humanizes its protagonist (whose motives remain unknown), and follows his grim quest with voyeuristic intensity and a wry sense of humor. It breaks down the act of killing to its most basic components, examining it as an everyday occurrence, while Also taking a nearly satirical stab at the seeming nonchalance with which it is treated by the authorities. Murder is no longer news.
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