Synopsis: The film is part of the Romanian director's "Six Stories from the Outskirts of Bucharest," an homage of sorts to Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales," a series of thematically connected but standalone films that the director has described as "love stories." While the story and cast have been largely kept under wraps, it's reported that "Aurora" is a crime drama with Puiu taking the lead role, a divorcee and father of two who quits his job to make a major change.
Cristi Puiu's follow up to "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu," "Aurora," has been acquired by The Cinema Guild for U.S. distribution. "Aurora" premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and played at this year's New York Film Festival. The Guild plans to release it into theaters in 2011.
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Read More »A slow burn thriller taken to the extreme, Cristi Puiu's "Aurora" continues the Romanian writer-director's obsession with time as his main narrative device. Whereas Puiu previously applied a patient, naturalistic approach to the final day of a dying man in 2005's "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu," his ne...
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