Aurora
Oct 07 - Oct 13, 2011
(Cristi Puiu, 2010, Romania, 35mm, 181 min)
Credited by some with starting the much-lauded Romanian New Wave, Cristi Puiu both directs and stars in this second installment of Six Stories from the Outskirts of Bucharest, Puiu's answer to Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales. Aurora unfolds with deliberate slowness, employing dialogue and performances as mundane as they are deadpan. Viorel is a disillusioned single father driven to serial murder by sheer frustration with his everyday life. As this uncannily calm killer wanders the streets, Puiu works with time, his favorite narrative device, to fashion an exercise in enduring unease and an intentional study of boring violence.