Aurora -- Film Review

CANNES -- These days young Romanian directors seem to be indulging in a frenzied round of macho competition: How long can we baffle and bore the audience before we deliver the goods? How much will they take before walking out? It must be said immediately that the goods are, in fact, always delivered at the end of the best of these films, and that's wonderfully true in "Aurora" as well. But what do we have to go through to get there?