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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
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
It's an intellectual wheeze, but too chilly to connect. Nov 8, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It's an intellectual wheeze, but too chilly to connect.
Robbie Collin
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
It never once feels like a three hour long movie - it simply exists as an unnerving, and wholly lived in, moment in time. Aug 5, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
It never once feels like a three hour long movie - it simply exists as an unnerving, and wholly lived in, moment in time.
Matthew Lucas
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
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