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"Aurora:" by the director of the fascinating and "one of the very

Posted by tinear on September 26, 2012 at 08:04:08:
best films" of a few years ago, "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu."
Christi Puiu wrote, directed, and acted the lead--- and did a brilliant job in all three. Now, whether a deep character study of a very troubled man who still remains a cypher will interest you--- that's the question.
A middle-aged man with little or no visible emotion, except a proneness to taking affront easily, goes about his quotidian activities, interacting in complex, mysterious (because we have no back story, no perspective) relationships with family members, fellow workers, and acquaintances. Slowly, we realize his furtive, secretive movements will lead to tragedy, though no one gains the least hint of this before the acts.
We live in a world where random acts of violence relatively are common; fictional portrayals, perhaps to mollify the nervous observer, often center on playing out details that explain the horrific acts which themselves are made "exciting."
Not so with Puiu's film.
This is what I'd characterize as a "deliberate" film, eschewing the more popular "slow" characterization because of its pejorative connotation; actually, the film moves at a realistic pace, it is most films that are accelerated because of commercial pressure to "entertain."