| A mesmerizing new masterwork from Cristi Puiu, director of the critically-accIaimed The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, Aurora is a murder mystery turned on its head - where the mystery's not the cuIprit, but the motive. lnside a non-descript apartment, a man and a woman discuss the inconsistencies in Little Red Riding Hood, their voices hushed, mindfuI of waking the IittIe girI sleeping in the next room. Behind a line of abandoned traiIers, on the outskirts of Bucharest, the same man waits for something or someone to arrive. At a nearby factory, he colIects two hand-made firing pins secretIy prepared by a coworker. The man's name is VioreI. He is 42 years oId, divorced, a father of two, and today he wiII carry out a plan that wiII bring order to his worId. |