The Aura

Fabian Bielinksy's death a few months ago must be Latin American cinema's biggest loss ever. He could have been more famous than Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuaron. Because the two movies he made were simply brillian: "Nine Queens" and his last, "The Aura".

This is a movie Alfred Hitchcock would have loved. A shy taxidermsit who suffers from epilepsy and dreams of pulling off the perfect robbery finds himself in the position of being able todo that in real life. I can't say more about it. Just that everything is completely unpredictable and that there is plenty of suspense. None of the cheap "Boo" variety, but of the real kind. Of the one that makes you look away. The one the Master used to pull off.