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Plot summary
Esteban Espinosa works as a taxidermist in Buenos Aires, where he passes the time working out how the perfect robbery should be done. When his wife walks out, he accepts an invitation from his friend Sontag to hunt in the Patagonian forest. The two men lodge at a cabin belonging to Dietrich, whose young wife Diana runs it with her brother Julio. Sontag leaves after a quarrel, and Espinosa stays on alone. Out in the woods he suffers an epileptic seizure, and when he comes to he fires at a deer but hits Dietrich instead. He picks up the dead man's telephone, returns to the cabin, and hears from a man named Vega about a robbery being planned.
Cast
- Manuel Rodalas Carlos Dietrich
- Alejandro Gancé
- Daniel Alejandro Ovando
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Aura (2005)
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- The aura effect was achieved with a circular camera dolly riding on a linear camera dolly: the camera spun with Ricardo Darín in front of it and dollied in while zooming out, so the background moved farther away.
- The first cut of The Aura ran three hours and the editing process took nine months; director Fabián Bielinsky said "nothing essential" was cut, only scenes shortened to reach the final runtime.
- To give The Aura a feeling of "unreality, alienation, where everything might be happening in a slightly out-of-kilter dimension", the film was converted to a digital intermediate, where that look was achieved, and then converted back to film.
- Casting director Eugenia Levin said the part of Montero, "a man in his sixties with respiratory issues and a mean face", was particularly difficult to cast; Uruguayan actor Walter Reyno was eventually chosen for it.
- While Fabián Bielinsky was still writing the script, he handed the character to Ricardo Darín to develop, then reproduced Darín's thoughts and sensations about the character in the script.
