El Aura

“The Aura” tells in the first person the extraordinary trip of a character with no name, a taxidermist, an introverted, obscure man who has a strange obsession for an honest man: again and again over recent years, he has planned and imagined the most perfectly executed robberies.

They’re always successful – thanks to his intelligence which, he claims, marks him apart from the idiots-fighting-idiots struggle of cops and robbers. He could carry it off better than anybody else.

Taken away from his urban habitat and transported to the remote forests of the south to take part in a day’s hunting, a tragic accident unexpectedly gives him the chance to commit a real crime: an attack on an armored security truck carrying the takings from a nearby casino.

Motivated at first by morbid curiosity, and then carried along by the momentum of events, this taxidermist will be hurled right into his fantasies, and compelled to assemble, piece by piece, a complex jigsaw puzzle of events which will slowly trap him inescapably.

Ricardo Darín, en la mejor interpretación de su carrera, encarna en este poderoso thriller a un taxidermista introvertido con una extraña obsesión: planear los asaltos a bancos más perfectos y exitosos. Sólo los imagina, no los lleva a cabo.

Hasta que un día, abandona su hábitat urbano para ir a los lejanos bosques del sur a compartir una jornada de caza. Allí un trágico accidente lo conecta inesperadamente con la posibilidad de ejecutar un verdadero delito: el asalto a un camión blindado que lleva las ganancias de un casino de la zona.

Movido primero por una morbosa curiosidad, y más tarde por una inexorable corriente de acontecimientos, el taxidermista se verá proyectado hacia sus fantasías, armando pieza a pieza un rompecabezas que lo irá encerrando sin remedio.